Portolan chart; cartographic material (DS9769) (Q43311)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1861999x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861999, mssHM 1548)
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Portolan chart; cartographic material (DS9769)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1861999x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861999, mssHM 1548)

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    Portolan chart; cartographic material
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    Portolanos--Italy--15th century
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    World maps--Early works to 1800
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    Nautical charts--Early works to 1800
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    between 1485 and 1499
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    Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 810 x 675 mm
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    Nautical chart of the Mediterranean area, including Europe with British Isles and part of Scandinavia, probably made in northeastern Italy (Venice?), judging from linguistic characteristics, and possibly before 1492, since map appears to precede Spanish reconquest of Granada.
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    Span folios: f. 1r-v. Support: Parchment (full skin). Layout: Borders are triple ruled in black and red on top and bottom only.
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    Land masses outlined in black ink (Ireland overtraced in green, Scotland in pale red, traces of ocher on other coasts) with islands painted gold, green, red or blue; no compass roses, instead the symbols for the 4 principal directions are inscribed on two rhumb line intersections, one on the upper and one on the right sides; several rhumb line patterns, some with 32 lines, many only partial; a...
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/13/2012.
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    Sold in 1867 by Henry Stevens (1791-1867) to Henry Huth, The Huth Library (1880), pt. 4, 1171. Sale of Alfred Henry Huth, Sotheby's, 11 July 1917, pt. VI, n. 5913 to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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