Die Schiffart aus Hispanien in die newe Welt

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Vellum. Scale: [ca. 1:75 000 000]. Cartographic Note: Latitude scale on Ptolemy's meridian. Additional Places: Atlantic Ocean, Americas, Africa. Contents Note: Iconography: one ship; towns in Spanish Americas; giants in Chile. Bound in an atlas of twenty-four cartographic items titled: 'Seekarten von Battista Agnese Anno MDLIV.d.IV.May.' The atlas also includes astronomical tables and diagrams. Text in Latin, titles and place names in German outside borders.

Record Details

Item reference: P/24(6); MS1939-9922C
Level: PART
Extent: 26.5 x 40cm
Date made: 1554
Creator: Agnese, Battista
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London