Newberry Library, VAULT Ayer MS map 10

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS17914

Shelfmark:

VAULT Ayer MS map 10

Title:

Manuscript portolan atlas of the world

Portolan atlas

Author:

Agnese, Battista, active 16th century

Battista Agnese WIKIDATA

Date:

approximately 1550

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

6 maps, 1 ill., hand col. parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 ms. atlas ([9] leaves) : 6 maps, 1 ill., hand col. parchment ; 26 cm.

Note:

Unsigned and undated Italian manuscript. Attributed to the Genoese chartmaker Battista Agnese in Herbert Raup Wagner, "The manuscript atlases of Battista Agnese" in Bibliographical Society of America. Papers 25 (1931): 52 and 76-77. In later and separate examinations, Corradino Astengo of the Università di Genova agreed with this attribution, but not Peter Barber of the British Library; dated...
Magnetic compass (13 mm. in diam.) mounted within paste-down illustration of a compass rose.
Pen-and-ink and paint (red, brown, blue, green, gold). Gilt-edged vellum sheets glued back-to-back.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).

Keyword:

Atlases

Early works

Compass

Specimens

Nautical charts

Manuscript maps

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993154598805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSQGDAK0

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library