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Add MS 6390
- Record Id:
- 032-002029067
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000216
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6390
- Title:
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PORTOLANO ATLAS: atlas by Grazioso Benincasa, showing Europe and part of Africa; 1468. Italian. Origin: Italy. A memorandum on f. 5 states that Benincasa drew the atlas in 1468 for Prospero Camulio 'Medic', of Genoa, probably Prospero Camulio de Medicis, Bishop of Caithness. Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts and plans . . . in the British Museum, i(1844), pp. 16-17. Listed as no. 43 in
T. Campbell, 'Census of pre-sixteenth Century Portolan Charts, Imago Mundi, 38 (1986), pp. 67-94. See also: M. de la Roncière and M. Mollat du Jourdin, Les Portulans (1984), nos. 18-19, where an atlas produced by Benincasa in 1467 is discussed; M. Emiliani, 'Le arte nautiche dei Benincasa, cartografi anconetani', Bolletina della Società Geografica Italiana, lxxiii (1936), pp. 493-494. Possibly owned by Giulio? Saibante of Verona, fl. 1735, see C. Frati, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari e bibliofili italiani dal sec. xiv al xix (1933), p. 509. Purchased 26 Feb. 1821, sale-cat. Sotheby, Saibanti and Canonici Manuscripts. A catalogue of a singularly rare collection of manuscripts . . ., lot. 537.
Vellum, and paper (f. 2); ff. 9. Seven vellum sheets, ff. 1 and 3 being on the same sheet owing to rearrangement on rebinding. 275 x 345mm. approx. Red, blue, green and gold. The boards of the original binding, brown leather, gilt-stamped over boards, traces of metal bosses and clasps, modern spine, are preserved separately.
Contents:
1. ff. 1, 3. Lunar tables 1451-1470 and table to find Easter Day.
2. f. 4. The Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean.
3. f. 5. The Aegean, the Adriatic and the Central Mediterranean to Sicily.
4. f. 6. Western Mediterranean to the Straits of Gibralter.
5. f. 7. The British Isles and Western Europe.
6. f. 8. Southern Portugal and the North-West African coast.
7. f. 9. West African coast south of Cape Blanco.
8. ff. 2-2v. Memorandum comparing this atlas to another by the same cartographer, dated 1469 and owned by the Fathers della Salute in Venice; early 19th cent. Italian.
- Scope & Content:
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Prospero Camulio de Medicis, Bishop of Caithness: Portolano atlas drawn for(?): 1468.
Bindings ITALIAN: Brown leather, gilt-stamped: 1468.
Maps and Plans: Grazioso Benincasa, cartographer: Portolano atlas by Grazioso Benincasa: 1468: Ital.
includes:
- ff. 1, 3 Astronomy: Lunar tables, etc.,: 1468.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029067
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029067
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1468
- End Date:
- 1468
- Date Range:
- 1468
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Giulio Saibante, of Verona: Owned?, 18th cent.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Benincasa, Grazioso, cartographer
Medicis, Prospero Camulio de, Bishop of Caithness
Saibante, Giulio, of Verona