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ff. 2. [Jean François Roussin]. [Portolan atlas]. Latin. 1, Entire Mediterranean area; 2, Aegean Sea; 3, Adriatic Sea. Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially. Yellow band borders. Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in color with islands painted red, blue, green or gold; from 6 to 14 elaborate compass roses on each chart with usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions (on chart 3 the rhumb lines cover the sea area only); no latitude or longitude; 1 or 2 unnumbered scales of distance on each chart; highly colored, cartouches decorated with fruit, flower, or figure designs, vignettes of a few cities, with an inset drawing of Venice on chart 3. Name of the cartographer, date and place are inscribed on chart 1. Assigned Date: s. XVIImed. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012. 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, s. XVIII, in mottled paper boards. HM 37. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Inside cover and label on front bear number "209 " (which apparently was misread by De Ricci as 1119) from the sale of the library of the Abate Luigi Celotti, Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, n. 209 to Thomas Thorpe (numbers 66 and 67 inside front cover may be from this sale) who sold it ca. 1825 to Phillipps. Sir Thomas Phillipps' Middle Hill stamp inside back cover and his number 2550 altered from 2634.
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