[Portolan atlas]

Contributor:

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)

Name:

Agnese, Battista, active 16th century

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1535

Description:

7 double-page navigational maps marked with place names and rhumb-lines, probably from the workshop of Battista Agnese.; 1. f.1v-2r: [Britain and northwestern Europe]; 2. f.2v-3r: [Western Mediterranean]; 3. f.3v-4r: [Eastern Mediterranean]; 4. f.4v-5r: [Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, Sea of Azov]; 5. f.5v-6r: [Adriatic Sea]; 6. f.6v-7r: [Aegean Sea]; 7. f.7v-8r: [World]

Language:

Italian

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.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1330540; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs28.html

Subject:

Early maps; Nautical charts -- Early works to 1800; Navigation -- Italy -- Venice -- History; Navigation; History; Nautical charts

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); Atlases; Portolanos; World maps; Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

8 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 398 x 290 mm bound to 430 x 298 mm (double-page map size 290 x 580 mm)

Geographic Subject:

Italy -- Venice

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; 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.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 28

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)