[Portolan atlas]
- Description
- 7 double-page navigational maps marked with place names and rhumb-lines, probably from the workshop of Battista Agnese.
- Creator
- Agnese, Battista, active 16th century
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- atlases
- portolanos
- world maps
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1535
- Language
- Italian
- Subject
- Early maps
- Nautical charts -- Early works to 1800
- Navigation -- Italy -- Venice -- History
- Navigation
- History
- Nautical charts
- Geographic Subject
- Italy -- Venice
- Collection
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 8 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 398 x 290 mm bound to 430 x 298 mm (double-page map size 290 x 580 mm)
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Table of contents: 1. f.1v-2r: [Britain and northwestern Europe]
- Table of contents: 2. f.2v-3r: [Western Mediterranean]
- Table of contents: 3. f.3v-4r: [Eastern Mediterranean]
- Table of contents: 4. f.4v-5r: [Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, Sea of Azov]
- Table of contents: 5. f.5v-6r: [Adriatic Sea]
- Table of contents: 6. f.6v-7r: [Aegean Sea]
- Table of contents: 7. f.7v-8r: [World]
- 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.
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Italian.
- Related works
- Video orientation
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 28
- Provenance
- 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.
- Compeggio, Tommaso, 1483-1564, former owner.
- Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552, former owner.
- Ludwig, Peter, 1925-1996, former owner.
- Ludwig, Irene, former owner.
- J. Paul Getty Museum, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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