(Q43374)

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Portolan chart, French; cartographic material
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Nautical charts--France--17th century
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Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 460 x 635 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Support: Parchment.
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Layout: Black band border.
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Span folios: f. 1r-v.
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Other Decoration: Black ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in color, smaller islands painted gold, silver, or green; 2 intricate compass roses with usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red and green ink for the principal directions; latitude scale numbered from 77° to 80°, no longitude; numbered scale of distance in an elaborate...
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Chart was probably made in France (since area names are in French), possibly between 1615 and 1623 (since conflicting Danish and Dutch claims are noted).
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Assigned Date: s. XVII1/4.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
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The only marking is the number "13" in a seventeenth century hand on verso (once in pencil and once in red ink), probably a page number in a volume of maps.
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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