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La sfera ca. 1425

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Title La sfera ca. 1425

Creator Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436

Date 1425

Place Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea

Language Italian

Subjects Astrology, Cosmography, Geography, Nautical charts, World maps, Manuscript

Description Cited as "La sfera" or "La spera" in secondary literature. In this copy (one of some 200 ms. copies extant), the first book is not titled, but books 2-4 are headed "Libro secondo della spera", etc.
Pen-and-ink and paint (blue, green, brown, red, yellow, gold); written in a fine humanist hand; page [1] includes elaborate white vine-stem border and and an unidentified coat-of-arms; bound in 19th-century (?) gold papier boards.

Summary Unsigned cosmography, astrology, and geography textbook written in verse by the Florentine silk merchant Gregorio Dati; sometimes attributed to his brother Leonardo Dati, a Dominican friar. Illustrated with astrological charts, geographical diagrams, world maps, and portolan chart sections of the southern Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts.

Extent [48] p. : ill., 12 hand col. ms. maps, vellum ; 29 cm

Format Textbooks

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

Link to Catalog View record

Call Number Ayer MS map 1

BibID 313911

Projects Tag Italian Paleography

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2720px × 3616px 56.32 MB

File Created 10/21/2017

Filename 993139118805867_ayer_ms_map_01_01_012.tif

Unique Identifier NL11Z0R6

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