The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 10

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9768

Shelfmark:

mssHM 10

Title:

Portolan atlas, Italian; cartographic material

Author:

Agnese, Battista, active 16th century

Battista Agnese WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

between 1540 and 1560

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 20 (19 ff. folded & pasted back to back) : parchment ; 232 x 326 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Layout: Bifolia attached sequentially with stubs. Single ruled black borders.
Other Decoration: The charts that were made by Agnese have 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, green or red. The charts in this volume that are not made by Agnese (ff. 12v-13, 16v-17, 17v-18, 18v-19) have nomenclature in black ink only, islands the color of adjacent land...
Geographical features suggest a date of production ca. 1550. Five charts possibly not by Battista Agnese: those on ff. 12v-13, 14v-15, 16v-17, 17v-18, 18v-19.
Assigned Date: s. XVImed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/13/2012.
Arms of an early owner (ca. 1600) stamped on binding and drawn on f. 2: quarterly 1 and 4, gules a cross of Toulouse, 2 and 3, gules a lion rampant crowned, on an escutcheon of pretence azure, a greyhound salient argent with inscription "Ex Dono Regis Cosme Valbelleo Balmelio" below. Owned by Cruninghen ca. 1650; this name across center of f. 2.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

portolanos

Armorial bindings

Atlases (Geographic)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861998

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:46086/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens