Manuscript on paper of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Descriptio Orae Maritimae Frisiae. With 2 maps on vellum: the first, with Dutch place names and Latin legend, shows the coast of the Netherlands. The other, also in Dutch, shows the southern coast of England
Description:
In Dutch and Latin., Script: copied by one hand in calligraphic Humanistic cursive script. The scribe's knowledge of Latin was defective., The illustration consists of two maps and numerous profiles of coastal landmarks, all in coloured pen and ink drawings. The profiles are copied from the woodcuts in the printed edition., and Binding: contemporary Dutch parchment binding, gold-tooled. On the flat spine the handwritten inscription in Southern Gothica Textualis: “Carta del navigare del mare Oceano”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Collation: 162 p., maps 1-19; 130 p., maps 20-41., Imperfect: wormed., Only maps no. 13 & 14 are printed as double plates, the others are included in text., Signatures: A-D⁴ E-G⁶ H² I⁶ K² L⁴ M-Q² R⁴ S² T⁴ V² X⁸; A[a]² Bb⁴ Cc⁶ Dd-Ff² Gg⁶ Hh-Ii² Kk⁴ Ll² Mm⁶ Nn-Pp² Qq⁴ Rr² Ss⁸ Tt-Xx²., and The title-leaf is that of the Dutch ed. (Licht der zee-vaert, Amsterdam 1620), with the Dutch title covered by a slip bearing the English title as above.
Publisher:
Printed by VVilliam Iohnson, dwelling upon the VVater, by the Old Bridge, at the signed of the Golden Sundyall,
Subject (Name):
Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601., Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606., and Westmorland, Mildmay Fane,--Earl of,--1601-1666--Ownership.
