Details

Subject(s)

• Mediterranean Sea—Maps [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Portolan charts [Browse]
• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Greece—1640 [Browse]
• Maps—Mediterranean Sea—1640 [Browse]

Summary note

Portolan covering the area from Iberia to Greece to the Holy Land, with Sicily at the center. The chart provides names of ports, compass roses, cartouches, city views with banner and other details.

Notes

The upper part of the sheet is cut into triangle shape and is decorated with a circular image of the Virgin and Child (85 x 85 mm) with below the following text in gold: Placidus Caloiro et Oliva fecit in nobili urbe Messane Anno 1640. The coastal places are plotted in red and brown ink; the major cities are represented by groups of buildings bearing a colored flag. The isles are painted in red, blue and green. Some rivers are shown in blue and the African coast is decorated with two palms, the Red Sea is colored in red.

Provenance

Inscription (late 19th or early 20th century) on verso: Archives de Merode, Westerloo, Bruxelles. Purchased at an auction at Pierre Bergé, Paris (June 18, 2014), lot 83, by Sanderus Antique Maps, Ghent, Belgium.

Source acquisition

Purchase; Sanderus Antique Maps, November 2018. Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies, with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund and matching funds provided by a gift of the Orpheus Trust to the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Hellenic Studies at Princeton.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1077250386

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