Portolan atlas, Italian (DS9635) (Q42909)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618595, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861859, mssHM 58316)
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Portolan atlas, Italian (DS9635)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618595, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861859, mssHM 58316)

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    Portolan atlas, Italian
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    between 1440 and 1460
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    Extent: ff. 78 : paper ; 160 x 230 mm
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    Title supplied from printed catalog.
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    Support: Paper.
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    Script: Humanistic.
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    Layout: Vertical catchwords. 24 long lines, blind ruled, with pairs of full-height verticals to either side of the text area, colored initials placed between the left pair, the top two and bottom two horizontals ruled the full width of the leaf.
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    Watermark(s): A crowned displayed eagle, closest to Briquet, Filigranes, nos. 87-88 and 90-91; ff. 75-76 with a duck(?) within a circle, closest to Briquet nos. 12202, 12204.
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    Span folios: ff. 1-78v.
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    Written in Italy, after 1445 (on f. 13, a note mentioning that date), perhaps at Venice, to judge by the dialect and watermarks.
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    Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/4/2009.
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    The front cover inscribed, s. XVII/XVIII, "26". Inscribed, s. XVIII, "Questo Codice é intitolato Portolano" (inner face of front cover; cf. spine-title), below a three-and-a-half line erased inscription. Giannalisa Feltrinelli, with her bookplate; her sale at Christie's, Part II, 3 December, 1997, lot 193). Sam Fogg Rare Books Ltd, London; acquired by the Huntington through the Library...
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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