Portolan maps of countries bordering the Mediterranean.
Description
A Venetian illuminated codex of sea-charts. Charts substantially
copied from a work of c. 1320, probably from a codex of charts by
Petrus Vesconte of Genoa, at that time resident in Venice. Nine
vellum pieces pasted onto boards and into wooden covers; each piece
is, width by height, 280 x 290 mm. South is at the head of each
chart. The first and last openings are each a diptych of devotional
miniatures.
Place
Preferred form
Venice (Veneto, Italy)
Original form
Italy, Venice
Other form
Venise
Venise (?)
Italie (Venise ?).
Venice
Venetia
Venetian Workshop
[Venice]
Italy, Florentine Venice
Venetian
Venice (Italy)
Hieronymus Mazza, van Venetië (1550) ; Chistophorus Masinus (17e eeuw)
