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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Islands of the Mediterranean.
Subject (Topic):
Atlases, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sailing ships
Print reproduces the J.O. Davidson painting of 1878 showing several ships at sail in choppy seas in the San Francisco bay at the Golden Gate; San Francisco in the distance on right; bouy in left foreground; headland in left background; three- and four-masted sailing ships, tug boat, side wheeler, small boat with one sail
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc72 881daz 01: Mounted on board 52 x 81 cm. Browned., Text below image: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1881 by Wm. Pate & Co in the office of the Librarian of Congress Washington., Title from caption below image., and In lower right corner within image: J.O. Davidson, Fordham, 1878.
Publisher:
Wm. Pate & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Golden Gate (Calif. : Strait), San Francisco Bay (Calif.), and San Francisco (Calif.)
