Newberry Library, VAULT Ayer MS map 12

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS17915

Shelfmark:

VAULT Ayer MS map 12

Title:

Manuscript portolan atlas of the world

Portolan atlas

Date:

approximately 1550

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

15 maps, hand col. parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

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...
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.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).

Keyword:

Atlases

Early works

Nautical charts

Manuscript maps

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993154608805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSQGD7A6

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library