Africa

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Bound sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Vellum. Scale: [ca. 1:50 000 000]. Cartographic Note: Latitude scales. Map. Contents Note: Iconography: named rulers, including Prester John and the Queen of the South; cities and trading posts; one ship. 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.

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Object Details

ID:	P/24(26)
Collection:	Charts and maps
Type:	Chart
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Agnese, Battista
Date made:	1554
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	26 x 40cm
Parts:	Twenty five charts on vellum and illuminated. (Manuscript) Peru (Chart) (P/24(5)) Die Schiffart aus Hispanien in die newe Welt (Chart) (P/24(6)) Persia (Chart) (P/24(7)) Europa (Chart) (P/24(8)) Hispanien (Chart) (P/24(9)) Sardinia und Corsica (Chart) (P/24(10)) Italia (Chart) (P/24(11)) Grichenland (Chart) (P/24(12)) Die Tartareioda (Chart) (P/24(13)) Natolia oder die Turctei (Chart) (P/24(14)) Malta leit im Sicilischen Meer (Chart) (P/24(15)) Sicilia (Chart) (P/24(16)) Negroponte (Chart) (P/24(17)) Lesbus (Chart) (P/24(18)) Chius (Chart) (P/24(19)) Creta (Chart) (P/24(20)) Rhodis (Chart) (P/24(21)) Cypern (Chart) (P/24(22)) Moscaw oder Reuss (Chart) (P/24(23)) Das Heilige Land (Chart) (P/24(24)) Mitternachtliche Lander (Chart) (P/24(25)) Africa (Chart) (P/24(26)) Egipten (Chart) (P/24(27)) [World according to Ptolemy] (Chart) (P/24(28)) [World] (Chart) (P/24(29))