Set of Atlases: the Charles V and Magellan Atlases.
Formerly owned by the royal house of Hapsburg and Bourbon.
The first round the world voyage.

Set of two codices.

©The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, U.S.A.
©Biblioteca Nacional. Madrid.


16th century .
Size: 22 x 15  and 20 x 14 cm.
32 and 36 parchment pages
68 miniatures illuminated with gold and silver

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