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Description
ff. 7. [João Freire]. [Portolan atlas]. Latin. 1, Baltic Sea and Scandinavian peninsula; 2, Western Europe and part of northern Africa; 3, Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Aegean Sea; 4, Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea; 5, Atlantic Ocean, northwest coast of Africa, and Portugal; 6, Gulf of Guinea and West African coast; 7, North Atlantic Ocean, Newfoundland and neighboring coast.
Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Layout: Folios arranged sequentially with stubs. Small black borders on 3 sides with decorative markings. Span folios: ff. 1-7v. Other Decoration: Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in display script; land masses outlined in green, with islands painted gold, red, or blue; each chart has from 6 to 13 compass roses and the usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; each chart has a numbered latitude scale (except charts 1 and 7), but no longitude; an unnumbered scale of distance on each chart; charts are colorfully decorated with vignettes of cities, coats of arms, ships, and other illustrations. Chart 7 is inscribed "joham freire a fez era de .546. " Assigned Date: s. XVImed. 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, ca. 1840, in French half roan; each chart appears to have been cropped and is mounted on heavy paper with labels in a nineteenth century French hand tipped in under each chart. HM 35. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Portolanos Portugal 16th century. (aat) Atlases (Geographic) Portugal 16th century. (rbgenr) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Endpapers bear numbers "970, " "171, " "D. 1. 1563* "; atlas is first known in the library of Baron Taylor in 1841-42 (not in his 1848 sale). Sale of Guglielmo Libri (1803-69), Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, n. 827, with reproduction of chart 7 on pl. 33 to Quaritch. There is no Huth ex libris, as mentioned in this sequence in PMC 1:153 , nor are there any marks or signs that it ever existed in this volume. Sir Thomas Phillipps' number "23856 " and shelfmark "a.61 181 " (altered from "449 ") are on flyleaf; Phillipps' sale, Sotheby's, 26 June 1919, n. 528, to Campbell (nom de guerre of Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick).
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