Portolan atlas, Portuguese; cartographic material (DS9783) (Q43353)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620139, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862013, mssHM 39)
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Portolan atlas, Portuguese; cartographic material (DS9783)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620139, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862013, mssHM 39)

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    Portolan atlas, Portuguese; cartographic material
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    Bookplates (Provenance)
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    Portuguese with laid-in map of Mexico City in Spanish
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    Extent: ff. 181 : paper ; 270 x 355 mm
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    Title from printed catalog.
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    Support: Paper.
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    Layout: 18(blank leaves) 210(blank leaves) 310(ff. 19-25 blank) 4-610 710(ff. 79-80 and remaining leaves, blank). Single ruled black borders.
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    Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display scripts; land masses outlined in color, with islands painted blue, green, red, or gold; one compass rose on each chart (except ff. 55v-56, which has none) with usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; a numbered latitude scale on each chart with...
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    Produced ca. 1630. Native paper. The charts are drawn across openings on ff. 25v-77 with folios left blank between charts; ff. 86v-113 have black rhumb lines drawn on alternate openings in preparation for making charts, but these prepared pages have been glued together so only the blank sides show. Maturity of delineation of Japan and detailed knowledge of Asian and East Indian area coupled...
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    Assigned Date: s. XVII2/4.
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012.
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    The notations on f. 180v "De Gaspar Mĩz" [Martínez?], "K" on f. lv and "No 36" written on binding in seventeenth century hands may indicate early owners. Sold in 1863 by Bernard Quaritch to Henry Huth (1815-78). Huth ex libris on inside front cover. Notation "Portolano (5) p. 1171" pencilled on f. 1 indicates The Huth Library (1880) pt. 4, 1171 .
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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