Matheus da Gaio, Portolan chart, 19th or 20th century forgery (DS9771) (Q43317)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620012, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862001, mssHM 218)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Matheus da Gaio, Portolan chart, 19th or 20th century forgery (DS9771) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620012, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862001, mssHM 218) |
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Matheus da Gaio, Portolan chart, 19th or 20th century forgery
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19th century
19. century
1800
1899
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Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 483 x 371 mm
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Title from printed catalog.
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Oval map of the world, including eastern coast of North and South America. Almost certainly a forgery, as is HM 217. On the map, the inscription, "Opus Mathei Da Gaio In Venetia anno domini MDXVI Sub Serenissimo Duce Leonardo Lauredan" with a coat of arms. Appears to have been made by the same cartographer as HM 217. It cannot be of the date inscribed since it bears the place names "Nova...
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Support: Parchment.
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Layout: No borders.
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Other Decoration: Nomenclature in red ink, area names overlaid with gold in square capitals; land masses outlined in black ink overtraced in ocher; no compass roses, no rhumb lines, no latitude or longitude; no scale of distance; decorated with 8 wind-heads, scrolls for titles, a compass in one corner and coat of arms in another.
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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."
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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