Portolan atlas, French; cartographic material (DS9778) (Q43338)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620085, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862008, mssHM 34)
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Portolan atlas, French; cartographic material (DS9778)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620085, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862008, mssHM 34)

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    Portolan atlas, French; cartographic material
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    Atlases (Geographic)--France--17th century
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    Atlases (Geographic)--France--16th century
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    Portolanos--France--16th century
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    Portolanos--France--17th century
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    Extent: ff. 5 : parchment ; 211 x 310 mm
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    Title from printed catalog.
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    Support: Parchment.
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    Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially. Black band borders.
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    Span folios: ff. 1-5v.
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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 color, islands painted gold, green, blue, or red; each chart has from 3 to 14 compass roses with usual 32 rhumb line network with black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; no latitude or longitude; unnumbered scale of distance on each chart...
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    Probably made ca. 1600 in France from an Italian prototype, since cities are in Italianate form while area names are in French. Probably made by a member of the Oliva family according to letter on file from H. Derek Howse of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
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    Assigned Date: s. XVI/XVII.
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
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    First chart bears pencilled letters "MHC" and "Libri 475" indicating the sale of Guglielmo Libri (1803-69), Sotheby's, 28 July 1862, n. 475 to Jackson. Sir Thomas Phillipps' n. 16406 written on first chart.
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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