Map of Palestine

Accession number: 
MS M.877
Title: 
Map of Palestine
Created: 
Venice, Italy, ca. 1300.
Credit: 
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library with the assistance of Mrs. Louis M. Rabinowitz and Mrs. Lester A. Le Wars; 1956.
Description: 
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; 520 x 1455 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased from a Swiss dealer in 1955 by H.P. Kraus, New York; purchased from H. P. Kraus as Gift of the Fellows with the assistance of Mrs. Louis M. Rabinowitz and Mrs. Lester A. Le Wars in 1956.
Notes: 

Ms. single leaf map of Palestine, composed of two skins, written and illuminated in Venice, Italy, ca. 1300.
Decoration: map laid out over a grid of 84 by 28 squares, depiction of rivers, seas, mountains, towns, 2 drawings of biblical scenes.
Matted and framed.

Script: 
cursive
Language: 
Latin
Century: