Ptolemy, Geographia; cartographic material (DS9791) (Q43377)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620218, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862021, mssHM 1092)
- Geographia
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| English | Ptolemy, Geographia; cartographic material (DS9791) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620218, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862021, mssHM 1092) |
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Geographia
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Ptolemy, active 2nd century
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Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656-1733
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Atlases (Geographic)--Italy--15th century
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Portolanos--Italy--15th century
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between 1475 and 1499
15. century
1475Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 54 : parchment ; 295 x 457 mm
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Atlas of the world from Western Europe and Africa to Indochina, containing 27 maps and 26 tables. Made in Italy (judging from the humanistic hand, the abbreviations used and the ornamental borders of the tables), probably ca. 1480; it seems to be an early work with the maps showing a large number of place names still in Greek, lacking the various symbols later used for cities, and omitting the...
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Span folios: ff. 1-54v. Support: Parchment. ff. i (early modern paper) + 54 (27 bifolia with maps on center openings and accompanying tables on preceding reverse sides) + i (early modern paper); 457 × 295 mm. (map size, 375 × 440 mm. on double page openings, with many variations). Bifolia attached sequentially with tabs. Tables in a humanistic hand with modern form arabic numerals.
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Nomenclature of maps in black or red ink, with area names in gold, blue or red, and scholia in black or purple ink; cursive noting hand and some use of square capitals; no compass directions or rhumb lines; borders of maps formed by the numbered latitude and longitude scales; no distance scales; sea areas covered with purple wash, cities indicated by small gold circles and mountain ranges with...
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Maps are mainly trapezoidal in shape, all maps have rectilinear meridians (except for the engraved world map, which is curvilinear), outside borders are bands of gold leaf. Contemporary arabic numbering of the maps at the top center of the page preceding each map, omitting the engraved world map and counting the British Isles map as number 1, which may indicate that the engraved map was added...
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Twenty-six tables alternating with maps; the tables are similar in text and format to the Ebner Manuscript in the Lenox Library at the New York Public Library. Published in many versions, the first with maps printed in Rome, 1478. See N. A. E. Nordenskiöld, Facsimile Atlas to the Early History of Cartography (Stockholm 1889) 9-29.
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Includes one engraved map, from an incunabula: Francesco Berlinghieri, Geographia [Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, not after 10 Sept. 1482] (Hain 2825; GW 3870).
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/15/2012.
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Purchased ca. 1700 by Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, for his library at Wilton House, Salisbury. Pembroke sale, Sotheby's, 26 June 1914, lot 166 to Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann (1854-1938) whose press mark "Kh.9" appears on front flyleaf. Quaritch Handlist, 1923, n. 35. Sold by Hiersemann to Otto Heinrich Friederich Vollbehr.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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