Details

Subject(s)

• World maps—To 1800 [Browse]
• Portolan charts [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Italian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Mediterranean Sea—Maps [Browse]
• Mediterranean Region—Maps [Browse]

Former owner

• Ellis, John Henry, 1840-1912 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Scheide 33. [Browse]
• Caloiro et Oliva, Placidus, 1611- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]
• Portolan charts [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—Italy—17th century [Browse]
• Manuscript maps—Italy—17th century [Browse]
• Parchment [Browse]
• portolanos [Browse]
• World maps—1642 [Browse]

Summary note

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

Notes

• 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.

Language note

Italian.

Provenance

Number 338 in a John Henry Ellis (?) cat. (s.v. Navigation); no. 2 in a 19th century collection.

References

De Ricci, p. 2125, no. 33

Cite as

Scheide Library, Princeton University. M 33.

Place name(s)

Italy Messina.

OCLC

177443350

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