[Portolan chart]

COLLECTION NAME:

Old Maps Collection

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MUST~2~2

Old Maps Collection

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Barcode:

3687800354085E

identifier

3687800354085E

Barcode

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Title:

[Portolan chart]

title

[Portolan chart]

Title

false

Other Title:

King-Hamy Portolan chart

other_title

King-Hamy Portolan chart

Other Title

false

Category:

Sea Charts

Category

false

Type:

Manuscripts

type

Manuscripts

Type

false

Language:

Latin

language

Latin

Language

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Create Year:

[ca. 1502]

date

[ca. 1502]

Create Year

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Format:

JPEG 2000, 22.7 MB

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JPEG 2000, 22.7 MB

Format

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Scale:

Scale not given.

scale

Scale not given.

Scale

false

Physical Map Dimension (cm):

29 x 47 cm, on sheet 42 x 56 cm

obj_height_cm

29 x 47 cm, on sheet 42 x 56 cm

Physical Map Dimension (cm)

false

Note:

This nautical chart was possibly made in Italy after a Portuguese prototype early in the 16th century. Some authors seem to attribute this chart to Amerigo Vespucci. It belonged to arctic traveler Richard King, then was bought in London by Alphonse Pinart. In Paris in 1885 was bought by Dr. Jules Théodore Ernest Hamy and subsequently by James William Ellsworth. The library of the latter was purchased by A.S.W. Rosenbach who sold this chart to Henry E. Huntington in 1923. It's one of the earliest maps to have a representation of the New World; America is represented by Greenland, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Antilles, the north coast of South America and the East coast of Brazil. This chart is also the first to give the name 'Insulae solis' to archipelago Azores, Portugal.

note

This nautical chart was possibly made in Italy after a Portuguese prototype early in the 16th century. Some authors seem to attribute this chart to Amerigo Vespucci. It belonged to arctic traveler Richard King, then was bought in London by Alphonse Pinart. In Paris in 1885 was bought by Dr. Jules Théodore Ernest Hamy and subsequently by James William Ellsworth. The library of the latter was purchased by A.S.W. Rosenbach who sold this chart to Henry E. Huntington in 1923. It's one of the earliest maps to have a representation of the New World; America is represented by Greenland, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Antilles, the north coast of South America and the East coast of Brazil. This chart is also the first to give the name 'Insulae solis' to archipelago Azores, Portugal.

Note

false

Note:

Original map is manuscript on parchment, 59 x 94 cm.

note

Original map is manuscript on parchment, 59 x 94 cm.

Note

false

Note:

Title from provenance library.

note

Title from provenance library.

Note

false

Note:

The map has 12 compass roses, three of them with an arrow indicating north. As for the rhumb lines the principal and half winds are in green, the quarter winds in red.

note

The map has 12 compass roses, three of them with an arrow indicating north. As for the rhumb lines the principal and half winds are in green, the quarter winds in red.

Note

false

Note:

Decorated with two vessels and a few figures and vignettes very faded.

note

Decorated with two vessels and a few figures and vignettes very faded.

Note

false

Note:

Land masses outlined in yellow with islands painted blue, red, gold or silver.

note

Land masses outlined in yellow with islands painted blue, red, gold or silver.

Note

false

Note:

Latitude lines on both sides of the map. Equator line in red.

note

Latitude lines on both sides of the map. Equator line in red.

Note

false

Note:

Relief is show pictorially.

note

Relief is show pictorially.

Note

false

Note:

Toponyms in minuscule black and red ink with area names in square capitals.

note

Toponyms in minuscule black and red ink with area names in square capitals.

Note

false

Note:

Top and bottom border decorated with gold in trellis pattern.

note

Top and bottom border decorated with gold in trellis pattern.

Note

false

Reference:

Magnaghi, A. Il planisfero del 1523 della Biblioteca del Re in Torino, p. 27

reference

Magnaghi, A. Il planisfero del 1523 della Biblioteca del Re in Torino, p. 27

Reference

false

Reference:

Caraci, G. Tabulae geographicae vetustiores in Italia adservatae, vol. 3, p. 62

reference

Caraci, G. Tabulae geographicae vetustiores in Italia adservatae, vol. 3, p. 62

Reference

false

Reference:

Randles, W.G.L. From the Mediterranean Portulan Chart to the Marine World Chart of the Great Discoveries: The Crisis in Cartography in the Sixteenth Century, Imago Mundi, vol. 40, p. 115-118

reference

Randles, W.G.L. From the Mediterranean Portulan Chart to the Marine World Chart of the Great Discoveries: The Crisis in Cartography in the Sixteenth Century, Imago Mundi, vol. 40, p. 115-118

Reference

false

Reference:

Duzer, C. van Cartographic Invention: The Southern Continent on Vatican MS Urb. Lat. 274, Folios 73v-74r (c.1530), Imago Mundi, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 195

reference

Duzer, C. van Cartographic Invention: The Southern Continent on Vatican MS Urb. Lat. 274, Folios 73v-74r (c.1530), Imago Mundi, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 195

Reference

false

Reference:

McIntosh, G.C. The Piri Reis Map of 1513

reference

McIntosh, G.C. The Piri Reis Map of 1513

Reference

false

Reference:

Hamy, E.T. Notice sur une mappemonde Portugaise anonyme de 1502, récemment découverte à Londres

reference

Hamy, E.T. Notice sur une mappemonde Portugaise anonyme de 1502, récemment découverte à Londres

Reference

false

Subject:

Nautical Chart

subject

Nautical Chart

Subject

false

Geographic Area:

World

geographic_area

World

Geographic Area

false

Geographic Area:

South America

geographic_area

South America

Geographic Area

false

Geographic Area:

Europe

geographic_area

Europe

Geographic Area

false

Geographic Area:

Africa

geographic_area

Africa

Geographic Area

false

Geographic Area:

Asia

geographic_area

Asia

Geographic Area

false

Provenance:

Huntington Library Collection

source

Huntington Library Collection

Provenance

false

Provenance:

https://catalog.hun…

source

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1842787

Provenance

false

Provenance Call No.:

mssHM 45

original_call_no

mssHM 45

Provenance Call No.

false

MUST holding:

https://must.primo.…

must_holding

https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991002923848605076

MUST holding

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[Portolan chart]