Portolan — c. 1553; Italian, Venice
MS. Canon. Ital. 142
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Portolan — c. 1553; Italian, Venice
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Ital. 142
Associated place
Florence
Italian
Venice
Place of origin
Italian, Venice
Date
c. 1553
Language
Italian
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Fine maps. By Battista Agnese. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 1014, pl. LXXXIII)
Binding
16th century, Italian (as MS., c. 1553, Venice): wood boards, with a small compass (mostly lost) inset in a rose at centre of inside lower board; dark red leather with blind and gilt lines, small gilt stamps, and gilt centrepieces of one (at front) or two (at back) gilt crescent moons (Strozzi?) within two interlocking squares; remains of four clasps, one nearly intact at upper fore-edge with strap of tooled red leather; spine plain. Cf. MS. Canon. Ital. 144 (larger format).
18th century, Italian, Venice, embellished for the collection of Jacopo Soranzo: decorative paste-down and flyleaf of carta bassanese added at each end, a circular window cut at the back paste-down to reveal the compass. 394–396 250–251 c. 22–24 (book closed).
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Provenance
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Giuseppe Canonici , -1807
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Title
Portolan
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Ital. 142
Date
c. 1553
Language
Italian
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Italian
Portolan
