Fos. 11v-12r Chart 3: Indian Ocean, Portolan atlas of the world, Venice, c.1542-46 (pen &...

Fos. 11v-12r Chart 3: Indian Ocean, showing the coasts of Africa, the Middle East, India and China, eight windheads captioned in German. From an atlas containing 30 leaves, COMPLETE, collation: [1-152], written and illuminated within narrow gilt frames on the obverse only of all bifolia, reverse of each bifolium blank. Dedication written in black ink in an accomplished calligraphic cursive hand, 3-column declination table with the figures in red and black, names of countries in Roman capitals, Latin, Spanish and Italian place names closely written in red and dark-brown ink in a fine humanistic minuscule. Full-page dedicatee's coat-of-arms, full-page armillary sphere, double-page Zodiac, 12 DOUBLE-PAGE MAP CHARTS, ALL ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS, coastlines in blue or green with gold, land masses in the two final maps in light and dark green, the Red Sea hatched in red, rhumb lines in red and black, islands in red, green or gold, mountains and tree clumps in gold and green, the Gulf Stream in green, the route from Spain to Peru in gold, Magellan's circumnavigation in silver, elaborate multi-colored compass roses heightened with gold, windheads in blue, pink and gold, mileage scales in brown. Battista Agnese was the first cartographer to chart Marcos de Niza's American discoveries (1531-39), as well as those of Francisco de Ulloa (1539-40).