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Three cuttings concerning the history of geography
Title
[Three cuttings concerning the history of geography].
Production
[France], [1450-1550]
Physical Description
6 items : parchment and paper, 5 manuscript maps ; 25 x 41 cm or smaller
Cartographic Detail
Scales not determined.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Layout: cutting 1 has two columns of 55 lines; cutting 2 has a single column of 19 lines.
Script: Gothic textualis.
Decoration: three-line initial in red.
Cuttings pasted and bound into Pierre-Camille Le Moine's "Etat des sciences et des arts en Lorraine" on pages 28-29.
Provenance
Signed by author: Le Moine, archiviste de l'Eglise de Toul (p. 38). Formerly owned by M. Marchant, 'avocat à Saint-Mihiel'. Formerly owned by Louis-Philippe-Joseph Girod de Vienney, baron de Trémont (1779-1852); no 1253 in his Catalogue de la belle collection de lettres autographes de feu m. le baron de Trémont, Chez Laverdet, 1852. Formerly owned by François-Jean Baptiste Noël (1727-1793); no. 6205 in his Catalogue raisonné des Collections Lorraines de M. Noël, Nancy, 1855. Formerly owned by Bruce Ferrini. Sold in 1989 to the Schøyen Collection, MS 1275. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal, (Christie's Schøyen sale, 2019 July 10, lot 459) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2019.
Summary
Five manuscript cuttings, on parchment and paper, related to the topic of geography and topography. First cutting contains chapter 51 of a 13th-century manuscript of Bede's De rerum natura, on the dimensions of Europe, Afrida, and Asia. Second cutting is a printed diagram of a sphere taken from an unidentified edition of Iohannes De Sacro Bosco's De Sphaera. Also includes four manuscript maps depicting the area of Lorraine (France), and the Moselle river. Cuttings used by Pierre-Camille Le Moine in his "Etat des sciences et des arts en Lorraine" to demonstrate the history of geography in Lorraine (cuttings 44-46).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts / Maps & GIS
Language
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Added to Catalog
December 21, 2023
Contents
Notte 34 Fragment d'un mss de l'an 1250
Notte 35 Planche tirée de la Sphère de Sacrobosco
Notte 36 Fragment d'une carte Géographique levée vers l'an 1480 environ
Notte 37 Plan visuel levé vers l'an 1450. Topographie des bois des Hayes communes entre le Duc de Loraine et divers seigneurs
Notte 38 Plan visuel des environs d'un moulin proche aingerey en Lorraine, levé vers l'an 1450
Notte 38 Plan visuel des environs du même moulin d'aingerey levé vers l'an 1550.
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Genre/Form
Cuttings (partial works).
Manuscript maps.
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