The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 25

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9616

Shelfmark:

mssHM 25

Title:

Portolan atlas; cartographic material

Portolan atlas

Author:

Agnese, Battista, active 16th century

Battista Agnese Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

TGN

Date:

approximately 1540].

sixteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

lat

Latin

WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 volume with 13 leaves : parchment ; 223 x 160 mm. (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)

Former Owner(s):

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Charts in the characteristic style of Battista Agnese, probably made in Venice, since Venetian linguistic forms appear in map notations; they can be dated about 1539-40, based on geographical features.
Parchment, ff. i + 13 (12 sheets folded in center and pasted back to back) + iii; 223 ₉ 160 mm. (map size, 193 ₉ 293 mm. on double page openings). Bifolia attached sequentially. Single ruled black borders. Modern pencilled foliation. Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with square capitals for display script; land masses outlined in blue ink with islands painted gold...
Bound, s. XVI, in Italian red morocco over wooden boards, stamped in gold with fleurets and ornamental designs on front and back (the same as HM 26); remains of 4 clasps.
Arms of first owner (?) on f. 1, partly erased or painted out: or an indistinct object sable (?) on a chief gules a cross argent. Owner's markings "676" and "H VIII n.3" pencilled on front pastedown along with "436 Guilford" indicating the sale of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827), London, 8 December 1830, n. 436 to Thomas Thorpe. "Th 1833" and "Heber" in Phillipps' hand on...

Keyword:

Italy

manuscripts (documents)

portolanos

World maps

Early works

Early maps

Nautical charts