Details

Subject(s)

• Pictorial maps—Greece—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Cartography—History—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Archipelagoes—Greece—18th century—Sources [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—18th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

late 18th century

Summary note

Northern Italian manuscript isolario (book of islands) of the Greek Archipelago. Major islands including Chios, Mytilenē, Rhodes, and Crete are not included while numerous minor islands are depicted through primitive maps. On paper, large 4to (347 x 240 mm.), [1]-[11]4: 44 ff. 56 maps on 44 leaves (drawn on rectos only, 33 full-page, 20 half-page and 3 maps together on f. 33), watercolor and ink over pencil, each map with title in ink on the upper margin, without signatures, foliation in a modern hand.

Binding note

Bound in 19th century marbled boards.

Source acquisition

Purchase; Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, 2017. AM 2017-156.

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