Portolan atlas. (DS606) (Q2884)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9948452623503681, Oversize LJS 28)
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Portolan atlas. (DS606)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9948452623503681, Oversize LJS 28)

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    Portolan atlas.
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    Nautical charts--Early works to 1800
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    Navigation--Italy--Venice--History
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    Early works to 1800
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    [between 1535 and 1538]
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    Extent: 8 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 398 x 290 mm bound to 430 x 298 mm (double-page map size 290 x 580 mm)
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    parchment, color illustrations
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    Ms. codex.
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    Origin: Written in Venice between 1535 and 1538.
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Script: Place names written in Gothic book script by at least 2 hands.
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    Binding: Contemporary Venetian goatskin over wooden boards with blind and gilt tooling.
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    Decoration: 7 double-page maps, with coastlines in colored washes of yellow, red, blue, or green; islands filled in with blue, green, red, or gold; rhumb-lines in red and brown; and decorative compass roses on most maps.
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    Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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    Sold at auction at Christie's, 17 November 1976, lot 277.
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    Purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, California), 1983.
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    Formerly owned by Tommaso Compeggio (bishop of Feltre, papal jurist, diplomat); given by Compeggio to Paolo Giovio (bishop of Nocera, humanist) on 8 Aug. 1541 (inscription inside upper cover).
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    Sold by H. P. Kraus to Irene and Peter Ludwig (Aachen, Germany) in 1978 (bookplates by Hans Erni inside upper cover; ms. XIII.15).
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    Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 December 1988, lot 38, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
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    4 August 2023
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    4 August 2023
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