Map [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas].

Title

• [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas].

Created / Published

• [ca. 1550?]

Headings

• -  Seaports--Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800
• -  Mediterranean Sea

Genre

• Manuscript maps
• Portolan charts
• Early maps

Notes

• -  Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Does not cover Black Sea.
• -  Title devised by cataloguer.
• -  Oriented with north to the right (indicated by fleurs-de-lys).
• -  Contains 11 compass roses in a circle centered on Sicily, 2 additional roses in Iberia, and rhumb lines connecting all roses and some central points without roses.
• -  Manuscript: pen-and-ink (brown) and dark watercolors.
• -  LC Nautical charts on vellum, 12
• -  Includes 4 scale bars (unidentified) and a large compass rose at top (in neck of sheet) containing a drawing of the Madonna and Child.

Medium

• 1 ms. map : col., vellum ; 50 x 19 cm., on sheet 51 x 20 cm., matted and mounted between transparent lucite sheets 64 x 39 cm., sealed by tape at edges.

Call Number/Physical Location

• G5672.M4P5 1550 .P6

Repository

• Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5672m.ct003136

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2010588182

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2010588182

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