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Metadata

DS ID:

DS606

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 28

Title:

Portolan atlas.

Portolan atlas

Author:

Agnese, Battista, active 16th century

Battista Agnese WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

[between 1535 and 1538]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, color illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 8 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 398 x 290 mm bound to 430 x 298 mm (double-page map size 290 x 580 mm)

Former Owner(s):

Ludwig, Irene

Irene Ludwig WIKIDATA

Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552

Paolo Giovio WIKIDATA

Ludwig, Peter, 1925-1996

Peter Ludwig WIKIDATA

Compeggio, Tommaso, 1483-1564

Tommaso Compeggio WIKIDATA

J. Paul Getty Museum

J. Paul Getty Museum WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Venice between 1535 and 1538.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Script: Place names written in Gothic book script by at least 2 hands.
Binding: Contemporary Venetian goatskin over wooden boards with blind and gilt tooling.
Decoration: 7 double-page maps, with coastlines in colored washes of yellow, red, blue, or green; islands filled in with blue, green, red, or gold; rhumb-lines in red and brown; and decorative compass roses on most maps.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 17 November 1976, lot 277.
Purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, California), 1983.
Formerly owned by Tommaso Compeggio (bishop of Feltre, papal jurist, diplomat); given by Compeggio to Paolo Giovio (bishop of Nocera, humanist) on 8 Aug. 1541 (inscription inside upper cover).
Sold by H. P. Kraus to Irene and Peter Ludwig (Aachen, Germany) in 1978 (bookplates by Hans Erni inside upper cover; ms. XIII.15).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 December 1988, lot 38, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Keyword:

world maps

codices (bound manuscripts)

portolanos

Manuscripts, Renaissance

atlases

Manuscripts, Italian

Sixteenth century

Early maps

Nautical charts

Early works

Italy--Venice

Navigation

Italy

History

Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948452623503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p39g91/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania