The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 27

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9615

Shelfmark:

mssHM 27

Title:

Portolan atlas; cartographic material

Portolan atlas

Author:

Agnese, Battista, active 16th century

Battista Agnese WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1553.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 volume, 14 leaves : parchment ; 369 ₉ 271 mm (14 x 18 in)

Former Owner(s):

Meerman, Gerard, 1722-1771

Gerard Meerman WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Parchment, ff. 14 (13 sheets folded in center and pasted back to back); 369 ₉ 271 mm. (map size, 288 ₉ 460 mm. on double page openings). Bifolia attached sequentially. Single ruled black borders. Original foliation in arabic numerals. Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with square capitals as display script; land masses outlined in blue ink with islands painted gold...
Bound, s. XVI, in Italian red morocco over wooden boards, with gold tooled designs front and back, 4 clasps; inside back binding is a hole cut to hold a compass to operate with the wind-rose drawn on pastedown.
Inscribed on f. 8, "Baptista agnese fecit venetiis anno domini 1553, die viii Iulii." On f. 2, erased arms (?), French, s. XVIex: argent a chevron (?). On front flyleaf, a note in Latin and French giving author and date of manuscript; on front pastedown, "No. 19901"; "845 MC" pencilled on front pastedown indicates the Gerard Meerman sale, The Hague, 1824, pt. IV, n. 845 to Sir Thomas...

Keyword:

Atlases (Geographic)

Italy

Fifteenth century

maps (documents)

Sixteenth century

manuscripts (documents)

portolanos

World maps

Early works

Early maps

Nautical charts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1849981

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens