Celotti, Luigi, approximately 1768-approximately 1846, former owner North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 2515
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Description
ff. 1-3v: [Salvator Oliva, two nautical charts: 1, Mediterranean; 2, Western coast of Europe and northwestern Africa]. Two nautical charts of the Mediterranean and the Western coast of Europe and northwestern Africa. Inscribed "Salvator Oliva fecit in civitate marsiliae, Anno 1619. " Span folios: ff. 1-3v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially with tabs. Border is a red band with a single black rule on each side. Black and red ink for nomenclature, in a humanistic hand with display script in square capitals. Land masses outlined in color, islands painted blue, red, green or gold; chart 1 has 10 compass roses, chart 2 has 6; usual 32 rhumb line network in black, green, and red for the principal directions; no latitude or longitude; chart 1 has 3 unnumbered scales of distance and chart 2 has 2; elaborate vignettes of Marseilles on both charts and highly decorated cartouches for scales of distance. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/13/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, in ca. 1830, with HM 31, in pink marbled paper over cardboard, brown calf spine. HM 2515. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Nautical charts--Early works to 1800 Portolanos France 17th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Sale of the library of Abate Luigi Celotti, Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, lot 207. A sale catalogue slip affixed to front pastedown describes a "...map of the World on three leaves. " Since this volume also contains the Mediterranean chart made by Estienne Bremond (HM 31) which forms the third leaf and since neither is a "World map, " the sale catalogue entry either was carelessly made or the slip actually refers to a different portolan chart and was erroneously placed in this volume. This volume may instead have been lot 210 or lot 283 in the Celotti sale: both numbers are pencilled on the pastedown. Number 391 on back pastedown refers to Cochrane's sale of the library of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, 8 December 1830 as dated by A. N. L. Munby, The Formation of the Phillipps Library up to the Year 1840, Phillipps Studies (Cambridge 1951-60) 3:56. Front pastedown bears his number "Phillipps MS 6360. "
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