• [Portolan charts and a manuscript map].

Text language:

• Italian.

Publisher:

• 1642.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Date:

• 1642

Extent:

• 3 leaves (folded) : parchment ; 380 x 550 mm.

Spatial:

• New Jersey

Language:

• Italian

Abstract:

• Maps and charts of the Mediterranean Sea and coasts (Southern Europe, Western Europe, Ottoman Empire), and a world map.

Description:

• Ms. leaves.
• Decoration: Illuminated figures of rulers with armorial shields, windroses, and cities with banners.
• Origin: Executed at Messina in 1642 by Giovanni Battista Caloiro and Placido Oliva.

Former owner:

• Ellis, John Henry, 1840-1912

Call number:

• 26.13

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9934976873506421

Subject:

• World maps—To 1800
• Portolan charts
• Manuscripts, Italian—New Jersey—Princeton
• Mediterranean Sea—Maps
• Mediterranean Region—Maps
• Manuscripts—Italy—17th century
• Manuscript maps—Italy—17th century
• Parchment
• Portolanos
• World maps—1642

Collections:

• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• The Scheide Library