University of Pennsylvania, LJS 28
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS606
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 28
- Title:
- Portolan atlas
- Agnese, Battista, active 16th century
- Place:
- Venice
- Date:
- between 1535 and 1538
- Language:
- Italian
- Material:
- parchment, color illustrations
- 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):
- Compeggio, Tommaso, 1483-1564
Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552
Ludwig, Peter, 1925-1996
Ludwig, Irene
J. Paul Getty Museum
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Script: Place names written in Gothic book script by at least 2 hands.
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.
Binding: Contemporary Venetian goatskin over wooden boards with blind and gilt tooling.
Origin: Written in Venice between 1535 and 1538.
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 at auction at Christie's, 17 November 1976, lot 277.
Sold by H. P. Kraus to Irene and Peter Ludwig (Aachen, Germany) in 1978 (bookplates by Hans Erni inside upper cover; ms. XIII.15).
Purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, California), 1983.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 December 1988, lot 38, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948452623503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p39g91/manifest
- Holding Institution:
