<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Atlas of the islands in the Eastern Mediterranean (Isolario), etc</dc:title><dc:date>[between 1560 and 1564]</dc:date><dc:language>ita</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript on paper made by an unknown Venetian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. This manuscript is highly interesting for the excellent drawings of contemporary Mediterranean sailing-ships</dc:description><dc:description>In Italian.</dc:description><dc:description>Script: Written by one hand in Gothico-Humanistic Cursive, which in the maps alternates with Capitalis. Headings in Capitalis inscribed on scrolls or tablets.</dc:description><dc:description>Maps, borders and decorations in colours. Clumsily drawn human and animal figures.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: Original limp vellum. On the spine is written "G***ctrica MSS". On the rear cover are a pen-drawing, upside-down, of the same decorative device as on f. 2r, and a sketch of city gates.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>