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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04376
Record number:
04376-10
JCB call number:
Codex Z 3 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Map of Greece and the Aegean Sea, including part of Turkey]
Place image published:
[Venice]
Image date:
1543-1545
Image function:
plate [10]
Technique:
manuscript
Image dimension height:
21 cm.
Image dimension width:
27.9 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 Greece and the Aegean Sea, Crete, western Italy, the Aegean islands, and part of present-day Turkey. Decorative framework includes classical busts and figures, as well as representations of gems.
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
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
World maps

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