From the Streeter collection., Pen-and-ink and watercolor., Relief shown by hachur, Shows "Partido del Paso," "Partido de Aldama," and "Partido de Rosales," with New Mexico to the north and Coahuila and Texas to the east., Spanish., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--Maps, Manuscript, Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)--Maps, Manuscript, and New Mexico--Maps, Manuscript
"[Juan] Dominguez [Y Valdez] was granted a colonization contract by the Texas government on July 6, 1829....the contract expired in 1835"--Taylor, V.H. Dominguez Y Valdez, Juan, in The handbook of Texas online. Texas Historical Association. 1997-2001. and From the Streeter colletion.
Subject (Geographic):
Dominguez Grant (Tex.)--Maps, Manuscript and Texas--Maps, Manuscript
Subject (Name):
Streeter, Thomas W.--(Thomas Winthrop),--1883-1965--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Land grants--Texas--Maps, Manuscript and Manuscript maps
Cadastral map showing landowners. and Includes decorative cartouche and indexes.
Subject (Geographic):
Broadway (Worcestershire, England)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Savage, Geo., Esqr
Subject (Topic):
Landowners--England--Worcestershire--Broadway--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800, Manuscript maps, and Real property--England--Worcestershire--Broadway--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Manuscript portolan chart, on parchment, for the western Mediterranean, showing the coasts of North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and the British Isles
Description:
In Latin., Damaged: coastline of Greece missing; severe fading., and Decoration: illustrations of five emblematic rulers and one of the Virgin Mary at the top of the portolan; three compass roses and strapwork.
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., and Damp stains have damaged and even obliterated some parts of the text, especially in its first section.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and Manuscript maps
