Details

Subjects:

Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation.
Pilot guides -- Philippines.
Pilot guides.
Colonies.
Philippines.
Philippines -- History -- 1521-1812.
History.
Spain -- Colonies -- Asia.
Spain.
Asia.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish

Summary:

A rutter (set of sailing directions) from Manila to surrounding destinations. For each pair of endpoints the rhumb (fixed direction) and distance between them in miles and leagues are given. Stored rolled in an early bamboo case.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, 4; 1-2².
Layout: Written in 4 columns of 34 lines; the leftmost column is the widest, containing the names of the endpoints, followed by 3 narrower columns for rhumbs and distance measurements; ruled faintly in lead.
Script: Written in cursive script.
Decoration: Some margins and section dividers ruled with double fillets in ink.
Watermark: Hijo de J. Joyer y Sera.
Binding: Sewn without a cover.
Origin: Probably written in Manila, Philippines, approximately 1750.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, August 1999.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 122 (LJS 319).

Cited as:

UPenn Oversize LJS 319.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

865575965

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page