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Description
World atlas containing 10 nautical charts, table of declinations, etc.: 1. f. 1v: Circular calendar 2. f. 2v: Table of declinations 3. f. 3: Armillary sphere 4. ff. 3v-4: Zodiac with small Atlantic hemisphere in center with a central cord to be used as a pointer 5. ff. 4v-5: Pacific Ocean with portions of North America, South America, Asia, and East Indies 6. ff. 5v-6: Atlantic Ocean with portions of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa 7. ff. 6v-7: Indian Ocean, Africa, southern Asia, and portion of East Indies 8. ff. 7v-8: British Isles, France, and northern Spain 9. ff. 8v-9: Iberian peninsula and northwest Africa 10. ff. 9v-10: Western Mediterranean and Italy 11. ff. 10v-11: Eastern Mediterranean, Italy, and Aegean Sea 12. ff. 11v-12: Black Sea 13. ff. 12v-13: Aegean Sea 14. ff. 13v-14: Oval map of the world (showing one route: around the world via the Moluccas) 15. f. 14v: Ruling for calendar. Title from printed catalog. Parchment, ff. 14 (13 sheets folded in center and pasted back to back); 369 x 271 mm. (map size, 288 x 460 mm. on double page openings). Bifolia attached sequentially. Single ruled black borders. Original foliation in arabic numerals. 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; each chart has one simple compass rose, with the exception of chart ff. 10v-11 (which has none) and the usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for the principal directions; latitude and longitude are indicated by numbers on charts ff. 4v-5, 5v-6, 6v-7 and latitude only on ff. 7v-8 and 8v-9, while formalized latitude scales are added on ff. 7v-8, 8v-9 and 9v-10; distance is indicated by series of dots, or dots and circles, placed diagonally across one corner of each chart; charts are more decorated than the other Agnese atlases at this Library, having many vignettes of cities, forests, mountains, rivers, and, on chart ff. 13v-14, 12 wind-heads. Bound, s. XVI, in Italian red morocco over wooden boards, with gold tooled designs front and back, 4 clasps; inside back binding is a hole cut to hold a compass to operate with the wind-rose drawn on pastedown. HM 27. The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
1 volume, 14 leaves : parchment ; 369 x 271 mm (14 x 18 in)
Early maps Nautical charts--Early works to 1800 World maps--Early works to 1800 Portolanos Italy 16th century. (aat) Atlases (Geographic) Italy 16th century. (rbgenr) Manuscripts Italy 16th century. (aat) Maps 16th century. (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Inscribed on f. 8, "Baptista agnese fecit venetiis anno domini 1553, die viii Iulii." On f. 2, erased arms (?), French, s. XVIex: argent a chevron (?). On front flyleaf, a note in Latin and French giving author and date of manuscript; on front pastedown, "No. 19901"; "845 MC" pencilled on front pastedown indicates the Gerard Meerman sale, The Hague, 1824, pt. IV, n. 845 to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Phillipps' Middle Hill stamp on front flyleaf with numbers "1912 & 24051" and note on pastedown stating "This was part of lot 845 in the Meerman Sale and should have been placed with other volume under Phillipps MS 1912, T[homas] F[itzroy] F[enwick]." Obtained privately through A. S. W. Rosenbach by Henry E. Huntington in 1924.
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