Peru

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Vellum. Scale: [ca. 1:75 000 000 (lat)]. Cartographic Note: Latitude scale. Longitude (with repeating figures) marked along the Equator. Additional Places: Pacific Ocean, Americas, China. Contents Note: Iconography: two ships sailing east from the Straits of Magellan; a city is depicted in China. 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.

Record Details

Item reference: P/24(5); MS1939-9922C
Level: PART
Extent: 26 x 40cm
Date made: 1554
Creator: Agnese, Battista
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London