Descriptio orae maritimae Frisiae orientalis et occidentalis

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Title: Descriptio orae maritimae Frisiae orientalis et occidentalis
Creator: Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606
Published / Created: [ca. 1592]
Publication Place: Leyden
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Descriptio Orae Maritimae Frisiae. With 2 maps on vellum: the first, with Dutch place names and Latin legend, shows the coast of the Netherlands. The other, also in Dutch, shows the southern coast of England
Description: In Dutch and Latin.
Script: copied by one hand in calligraphic Humanistic cursive script. The scribe's knowledge of Latin was defective.
The illustration consists of two maps and numerous profiles of coastal landmarks, all in coloured pen and ink drawings. The profiles are copied from the woodcuts in the printed edition.
Binding: contemporary Dutch parchment binding, gold-tooled. On the flat spine the handwritten inscription in Southern Gothica Textualis: “Carta del navigare del mare Oceano”.
Provenance: This is the only known copy of the partial Latin translation of Waghenaer's Thresoor. According to the inscription on the spine it seems to have been made for an Italian commissioner. Henry C. Taylor Collection, New York, no. 9. Bequest of Henry C. Taylor, 1971.
Extent: ff. iii + 43 : 395 x 455 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Dutch

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Netherlands 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Great Britain
Netherlands
Subject (Name): Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript maps
Manuscripts, Medieval
Description and travel
Subjects: Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript maps
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Great Britain > Description and travel
Netherlands > Description and travel
Netherlands > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Descriptio Orae Maritimae Frisiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.