Portolan chart; cartographic material (DS9792) (Q43380)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1862022x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862022, mssHM 1549)
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Portolan chart; cartographic material (DS9792)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1862022x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862022, mssHM 1549)

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    Portolan chart; cartographic material
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    Portolanos--Portugal--16th century
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    World maps--Early works to 1800
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    Nautical charts--Early works to 1800
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    Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 950 x 595 mm
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    Portolan chart by Luís Teixeira, inscribed "Por Luis Teixeira em Lixboa", created ca. 1600. Nautical chart of Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and portion of Scandinavia.
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    Span folios: f. 1r-v. Support: Parchment (full skin). Layout: Border is red band outlined in black.
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    Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea coasts and Scotland outlined in red ink, other Atlantic coasts colored green, with islands painted gold, green, red or blue; 15 elaborate compass roses, 7 with the symbols for the 8 wind directions; usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red and green ink for the principal directions; latitude scale numbered from 20° to 63° N, no longitude; 2 distance scales on...
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/15/2012.
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    Sold in 1867 by Henry Stevens (1791-1867) to Henry Huth, The Huth Library (1880), pt. 4, 1171. Sale of Alfred Henry Huth, Sotheby's, 11 July 1917, pt. VI, n. 5914 to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.
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