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Harley MS 3489
- Record Id:
- 040-002049320
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049320
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003d5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3489
- Title:
- An atlas of portolan charts by Joan Martines
- Scope & Content:
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This atlas consists of a collection of sea charts, executed by the Italian cartographer and cosmographer Joan Martines (d. 1591) in 1578. The atlas's seven charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto.
Contents:
ff. [1v-2r]: A map of the two hemispheres (Chart 1).
ff. [3v-4r]: A map of Sicily (Chart 2).
ff. [5v-6r]: A map of the western coast of Africa from 18 degrees north to 28 degrees south, with the coast of South America between 3 degrees and 21 degrees south (Chart 3).
ff. [7v-8r]: A map of Portugal, the Straits, and the western coast of Africa to 15 degrees north (Chart 4).
ff. [9v-10r]: A map of the British Isles and Iceland (Chart 5).
ff. [11v-12r]: A map of the Adriatic Sea and the Mediterranean, from the Morea nearly to the Straits (Chart 6).
ff. [13v-14r]: A map of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean eastward of the Ionian Isles (Chart 7).
ff. [1r, 2v, 3r, 4v, 5r, 6v, 7r, 8v, 9r, 10v, 11r, 12v, and 13r] are blank.
Decoration:
7 full-colour sea charts in colours with some gilding.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049320", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3489: An atlas of portolan charts by Joan Martines" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049320 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3489 : An atlas of portolan charts by Joan Martines - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3490]/040-002049320
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3489 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1578
- End Date:
- 1578
- Date Range:
- 1578
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 380 x 250 mm.
Foliation: The manuscript is not foliated, therefore notional foliation is given in squared brackets, ff. [14] (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Messina, Italy.
The atlas was drawn by the cartographer Joan Martines of Messina (d. 1591).
Provenance:
Thomas Phillips: his name and the date 1710 inscribed, with a record of his purchase of the manuscript 'when a prisoner at Valladolid' (ff. [iii] recto, [iv] recto).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724 ), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 33.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 276.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)