Manuscript portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea (DS17910) (Q73423)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Newberry Library (993154548805867, VAULT slipcase Ayer MS map 2, https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993154548805867)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Manuscript portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea (DS17910) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Newberry Library (993154548805867, VAULT slipcase Ayer MS map 2, https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993154548805867) |
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Giroldi, Giacomo, active 1422-1452
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Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800
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Nautical charts--Black Sea--Early works to 1800
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Nautical charts--Mediterranean Sea--Early works to 1800
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Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
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approximately 1440
15. century
1440Gregorian
1440Gregorian
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Extent: 1 ms. atlas ([7] leaves) : 6 hand col. maps, parchment ; 31 cm.
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Unsigned atlas attributed to the Venetian portolan maker Giacomo Giroldi in Akerman, James. "From books with maps to books as maps: the editor in the creation of the atlas idea" in Editing early and historical atlases ... / ed. by Joan Winearls (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995) p. 5-7, 15-16, and 38, note 6.
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Pen-and-ink and paint (red, green, brown, yellow, blue). Vellum charts pasted back-to-back within contemporary binding of wood boards covered with stamped leather (triangles within rectangles, double-ruled).
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For list of Giroldi's works see Campbell, Tony. "Portolan charts from the late thirteenth century to 1500" in The History of Cartography / ed. by Harley and Woodward (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) v. 1, p. 452-453.
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Unidentified dealer's description trimmed from a printed catalog and pasted inside back cover: "A very antient map of the world, folded in canvas, within boarded covers, of the fifteenth century, upon vellum, folio."
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Owned by Thomas Phillipps: "957 MSS. Phillipps" above the stamped crest and initials of Phillipps on verso of last leaf.
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Description from Catalogue of geography, voyages, travels, history of America, Africa, Australasia and Asia ... (London: [Bernard Quaritch], 1899), catalogue 188, p. 113, no. 906 pasted inside front cover. "Quaritch 1902. £25.00" in pencil on first leaf.
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Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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