World Maps
Sources:
Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map.
Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum, by Battista Agnese ca.
1544.
Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St.
Vaast.
Each double-page illumination (col.
diagrs....
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World Maps
Sources:
Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map.
Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum, by Battista Agnese ca.
1544.
Dedicated to Hieronymus Ruffault, Abbot of St.
Vaast.
Each double-page illumination (col.
diagrs.
, col.
maps) 21
x 29 cm.
Compass rose on inside back cover.
"Maps 1, 2, and 10 show America.
No.
1 shows the Gulf of California which
Ulloa discovered in 1539.
On the same map Yucatan is shown as an island, and the east and west coasts of North and
South America are only partially shown.
On no.
2, the east coasts of North and South America are shown in their
entirety and the west coasts only partially.
Clumps of trees in green and gold are shown on no.
1, near the Noluccas,
and on no.
2, in the Brazilian region of South America.
The oval world map (no.
10) shows Magellan s route around the
world and a route from Spain to Peru.
The 12 wind cherubs on this map are named.
" -- Ristow and Skelton, Naut
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