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...
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