Atlas of the islands in the Eastern Mediterranean (Isolario), etc

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Title: Atlas of the islands in the Eastern Mediterranean (Isolario), etc
Published / Created: [between 1560 and 1564]
Publication Place: Venice
Abstract: Manuscript on paper made by an unknown Venetian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. This manuscript is highly interesting for the excellent drawings of contemporary Mediterranean sailing-ships
Description: In Italian.
Script: Written by one hand in Gothico-Humanistic Cursive, which in the maps alternates with Capitalis. Headings in Capitalis inscribed on scrolls or tablets.
Maps, borders and decorations in colours. Clumsily drawn human and animal figures.
Binding: Original limp vellum. On the spine is written "G***ctrica MSS". On the rear cover are a pen-drawing, upside-down, of the same decorative device as on f. 2r, and a sketch of city gates.
Provenance: Bequest of Henry C. Taylor, 1971.
Extent: ff. 63 : 310 x 210 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Early works to 1800
Pictorial works
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Islands of the Mediterranean.
Subject (Topic): Atlases
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript maps
Manuscripts, Medieval
Sailing ships
Subjects: Atlases > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript maps
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sailing ships > Pictorial works
Islands of the Mediterranean
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Isolario. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.