Freducci, Conte di Ottomano, active 1497-1539, cartographer
Published / Created:
[1536?]
Call Number:
Covers 49 +1536
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Pen-and-ink in black, red, blue, green, and gold., Four charts, each measuring 33 x 43 cm, mounted on composite boards and edged with vellum, bound in boards covered by blue cloth with label pasted on front cover (No. [1906/242 in manuscript])., and Inscription on third chart (Mediterranean region from the Strait of Gibraltar to the coast of Greece), "Yhs ma [ver]go Conte freducci de ancona la facta nela[n]no MCCCCCXXXVJ."
Publisher:
Conte di Ottomano Freducci
Subject (Geographic):
Mediterranean Region, North Atlantic Ocean, and Baltic Sea
Relief shown pictorially., North oriented down., Bar scale given in unidenified units., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., Includes index of colleges, buildings, and streets., and Insets: view of Oxforde and a map of Oxfordshire with bar scale in miles.
BEIN 21 1670B: Manuscript number on verso: 174. Watermark., Depths shown by isolines and soundings., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and From Blaeu's De groote Zee-spiegel (Amsterdam, 1655).
BEIN Art Storage 49cea 1425: Imperfect: lower left corner and bottom edge torn, with some loss of map; slight holes throughout. With leather thone tie on left edge., Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines., Title devised by cataloger., Pen-and-ink in black, red, blue and green., Constantinople shown still in Christian possession; Thrace in possession of the Turks., Contains two compass roses., and Decoration: city views with banners.
Peutinger table and Tabvla itineraria ex illvstri Pevtingerorvm Bibliotheca
Description:
BEIN 2016 +333: Imperfect: title panel mutilated, with some loss of text. Sheets joined together to form a roll; backed in linen., Relief shown pictorially., "MD" in publication date in apostrophic forms., Appears in Ortelius' Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon. Antwerp, 1624., and "Peutinger Table: Road map of Western Roman Empire about 250 A.D. bought by Conrad Peutinger and published in Venice by Aldus in 1591 (2 sections only), in Antwerp 1598 (12 sections) ... The only record of Roman map making that has survived to the present day."--Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. New York, 1979.