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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04376
Record number:
04376-5
JCB call number:
Codex Z 3 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Map of Spain, Portugal, and northern Africa]
Place image published:
[Venice]
Image date:
1543-1545
Image function:
plate [5]
Technique:
manuscript
Image dimension height:
21.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
28 cm.
Page dimension height:
25.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
32.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors, gilt
Materials support:
vellum
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Map of Spain, Portugal, and northern Africa. Also includes the Strait of Gibraltar, the Madeira islands, the Cape Verde islands, and the Balearic islands. Decorative framework includes classical figures and fruit.
Source creator:
Agnese, Battista, fl. 1530-1564
Source Title:
[Atlas of portolan charts]
Source place of publication:
[Venice]
Source date:
1543-1545
notes:
Given by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (Charles I of Spain) to his son, who ruled as Philip II of Spain, this atlas consists of fourteen maps. Agnese, a prolific Genoese mapmaker working in Venice, and his workshop produced a number of decorated manuscript maps. Seventy-one surviving Agnese atlases were identified by Henry R. Wagner in 1931. The decoration on this world map is among the most refined and beautiful of all.
Time Period:
1492-1600
References:
Wagner, H. R. "Manuscript Atlases of Battista Agnese," Papers of the Bibliographical Soceity of America, XXV (1931), p. 1-110
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1893 by John Nicolas Brown.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Atlantic Ocean--Maps

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