(Q43320)

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Celotti, Luigi, approximately 1768-approximately 1846
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Portolanos--France--17th century
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Nautical charts--Early works to 1800
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Extent: ff. 3 : parchment ; 286 x 404 mm
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Two nautical charts of the Mediterranean and the Western coast of Europe and northwestern Africa. Inscribed "Salvator Oliva fecit in civitate marsiliae, Anno 1619."
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Span folios: ff. 1-3v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially with tabs. Border is a red band with a single black rule on each side. Black and red ink for nomenclature, in a humanistic hand with display script in square capitals.
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Land masses outlined in color, islands painted blue, red, green or gold; chart 1 has 10 compass roses, chart 2 has 6; usual 32 rhumb line network in black, green, and red for the principal directions; no latitude or longitude; chart 1 has 3 unnumbered scales of distance and chart 2 has 2; elaborate vignettes of Marseilles on both charts and highly decorated cartouches for scales of distance.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/13/2012.
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Sale of the library of Abate Luigi Celotti, Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, lot 207. A sale catalogue slip affixed to front pastedown describes a "...map of the World on three leaves." Since this volume also contains the Mediterranean chart made by Estienne Bremond (HM 31) which forms the third leaf and since neither is a "World map," the sale catalogue entry either was carelessly made or the slip...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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