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Open book Manuscript portolan atlas of the world

Title Manuscript portolan atlas of the world

Date 1550

Language Italian

Subjects Atlases, Italian, Manuscript maps, Nautical charts

Description Unsigned and undated Italian manuscript. Dated approximately 1559 by independent cartographic historian Michael J. Ferrar in 2022, based on comparison with the chart covering the British Isles in Agnese atlas held by Yale University (Beinecke MS 560). Attribution to the Genoese chartmaker Battista Agnese questioned as "doubtful" in Herbert Raup Wagner, "The manuscript atlases of Battista Agnese" in Bibliographical Society of America. Papers 25 (1931): 42-45, 53, and 101-102; see also Cartographic treasures of the Newberry Library (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2001) no. 6, p. 18 and 84.
Similar to another, less finished, unsigned, and undated manuscript portolan atlas at the Newberry Library (Ayer MS map 13).
Pen-and-ink and paint (blue, green, red, yellow, gold). Vellum sheets glued back-to-back and sewn together; apparently detached from boards.

Extent 1 ms. atlas ([16] leaves) : 15 maps, hand col. vellum ; 28 cm

Format Early works

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS map 12

BibID 315460

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2495px × 3448px 24.65 MB

Filename 993154608805867_ayer_ms_map_12_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11IADP