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| Keywords: Bodleian Libraries, Portolan atlas of seacharts.jpg For the Medici Italian c 1565 Red goatskin over wooden boards Decorated all over in elaborate interlaced gilt tooling with red and black mosaic At the centre of the front cover is a seascape painted in grisaille; on the back are the arms of the Medici impaling those of Austria The doublures similarly decorated with interlace Although this volume has suffered from the ravages of book-worms the complexity of both design and execution still astonish The volume is a portolan or atlas of sea-charts by the Genoese master Francesco Ghisolfi c 1565 although this luxurious production was never intended for use on board ship exhibition history Spine and front board source filename oulis2009-atb-0023-0 tif object history object type Licensed-PD-Art PD-old-100 cc-by-4 0 place of creation place of discovery http //digital bodleian ox ac uk/inquire/p//c594f8f7-ab2f-40e2-b973-7cc6341d0df0 Digital Bodleian Template Bodleian Libraries Portolan atlas of sea-charts Uploaded with GWToolset Bodleian Libraries Portolan atlas of seacharts http //iiif bodleian ox ac uk/iiif/image/c594f8f7-ab2f-40e2-b973-7cc6341d0df0/full/ 1000 1000/0/default jpg Files uploaded by the Bodleian Libraries' Wikimedian In Residence Bookbinding | ||||
