(Q43314)
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Matheus de Chiara, Portolan atlas, 19th or early 20th-century forgery
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19th century
19. century
1800
1899
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Extent: ff. 8 : parchment ; 163 x 237 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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World atlas containing 4 nautical charts. On the first map, the inscription, ". . . Me fecit fra matheo de Chiara de arimino anno domine [sic] M D. xix.". Almost certainly a forgery, as is HM 218. It cannot be of the date inscribed since the west coast of North America and entire northwestern section of South America could not have been known until much later. The handwriting appears to be of...
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Support: Parchment.
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Layout: Bifolia arranged sequentially. Triple ruled borders in black and red ink.
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Span folios: ff. 1-8v.
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Other Decoration: Nomenclature in black ink for ports, red ink for countries, and in red overlaid with gold for larger areas in an imitative gothic script; land masses outlined in black ink overtraced with ocher; each chart has one compass rose with symbols for the wind directions, but rhumb lines do not radiate from the compass roses; rhumb lines in black, red and green ink but often the 32...
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Assigned Date: s. XIX?
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/13/2012.
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Purchased by Henry Huntington in 1925 from Weymer Mills, London, who stated in a lettre preserved in Library files that the manuscripts [HM 217 and HM 218] "have been in the possession of an English family for 500 years." No owners's marks.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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