Portolano for the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea ("Marston Portolano").

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Title: Portolano for the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea ("Marston Portolano").
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: Venice
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment roll, consisting of five skins pasted together, of an untitled list of 267 courses mentioning distances between two places and the bearing according to a 32-point compass, in Venetian dialect
Description: In Italian (Venetian dialect).
Script: Written by one scribe in black ink except for five lines in red; of these lines 145 and 171 are no entries, but rubrics introducing the sections dealing with the Sea of Azov and the islands of the Aegean Sea respectively. The handwriting is a small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Cancelleresca influence; the latter is most apparent in the shape of the letter g and in the horizontal approach strokes at the top of the ascenders.
The majuscules are heightened in red.
Damp stains have damaged and even obliterated some parts of the text, especially in its first section.
Provenance: Gift of Thomas E. Marston, Yale 1927, in memory of Henry C. Taylor, Yale 1917.
Extent: f. 1 : 2580 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Portolanos Italy 15th century
Portolan charts Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Italy
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Description and travel
Manuscript maps
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > Description and travel
Manuscript maps > Early works to 1800
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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