Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Agnese, Battista, 16th cent
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Compeggio, Tommaso, 1483-1564, former owner
• Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552, former owner
• Ludwig, Irene, former owner
• Ludwig, Peter, 1925-1996, former owner
• J. Paul Getty Museum, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948452623503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778722282
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs28.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1330540 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4845262 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39g91

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1535 and 1538

Place

Venice

Summary

7 double-page navigational maps marked with place names and rhumb-lines, probably from the workshop of Battista Agnese.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. f.1v-2r: [Britain and northwestern Europe]
   
• 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]
   
• 3. f.3v-4r: [Eastern Mediterranean]
   
• 2. f.2v-3r: [Western Mediterranean]
   

Extent

Support

Binding

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.

Script

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Christie's, 17 November 1976, lot 277.
   
• Purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, California), 1983.
   
• 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).
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus to Irene and Peter Ludwig (Aachen, Germany) in 1978 (bookplates by Hans Erni inside upper cover; ms. XIII.15).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 December 1988, lot 38, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• atlases
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• world maps
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• portolanos

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Cartography

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v-2r — Britain and northwestern Europe, f. 1v-2r
• fol. 2v-3r — Western Mediterranean, f. 2v-3r
• fol. 3v-4r — Eastern Mediterranean, f. 3v-4r
• fol. 4v-5r — Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, Sea of Azov, f. 4v-5r
• fol. 5v-6r — Adriatic Sea, f. 5v-6r
• fol. 6v-7r — Aegean Sea, f. 6v-7r
• fol. 7v-8r — World, f. 7v-8r

Decorations

• fol. Inside front cover-1r — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. Inside front cover-1r — Owner note, Inside front cover