Following is the description of the chart from Auktion XXXVIII, p. 72, published by Haus der Bücher AG and L'Art Ancien S.A.: "Portolankarte. Anonyme portugiesische Seekarte von Teilen des atlantischen Ozeans. Portugal, 17. J and Title supplied by cataloger.
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
Nautical charts--Black Sea--Early works to 1800., Nautical charts--Mediterranean Sea--Early works to 1800., and Nautical charts--North Atlantic Ocean--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single late Beneventan hand, probably that of a nun, containing a collection of 27 prayers by Saint Thomas Aquinas and others for use at Mass
Manuscript on parchment roll, consisting of five skins pasted together, of an untitled list of 267 courses mentioning distances between two places and the bearing according to a 32-point compass, in Venetian dialect
Description:
In Italian (Venetian dialect)., Script: Written by one scribe in black ink except for five lines in red; of these lines 145 and 171 are no entries, but rubrics introducing the sections dealing with the Sea of Azov and the islands of the Aegean Sea respectively. The handwriting is a small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Cancelleresca influence; the latter is most apparent in the shape of the letter g and in the horizontal approach strokes at the top of the ascenders., The majuscules are heightened in red., and Damp stains have damaged and even obliterated some parts of the text, especially in its first section.