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Portolan atlas, Portuguese; cartographic material
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Atlases (Geographic)--Portugal--16th century
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Portolanos--Portugal--16th century
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Extent: ff. 7 : parchment ; 461 x 557 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Layout: Folios arranged sequentially with stubs. Small black borders on 3 sides with decorative markings.
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Span folios: ff. 1-7v.
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Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in green, with islands painted gold, red, or blue; each chart has from 6 to 13 compass roses and the usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; each chart has a numbered latitude scale (except charts 1 and 7), but no...
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Chart 7 is inscribed "joham freire a fez era de .546."
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Assigned Date: s. XVImed.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
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Endpapers bear numbers "970," "171," "D. 1. 1563*"; atlas is first known in the library of Baron Taylor in 1841-42 (not in his 1848 sale). Sale of Guglielmo Libri (1803-69), Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, n. 827, with reproduction of chart 7 on pl. 33 to Quaritch. There is no Huth ex libris, as mentioned in this sequence in PMC 1:153 , nor are there any marks or signs that it ever existed in this...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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