Bidspirit auction | ATLAS de Lázaro Luís 1563.

ATLAS de Lázaro Luís 1563. Lisboa. 1990. - ATLAS de Lázaro Luís 1563 . Códice da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. Edição preparada por Luís de Albuquerque e Maria Catarina Henrique dos Santos. Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 1990. [6] ff. de texto e [10] ff. de fac-simile: il.; 625 mm. Facsimile edition of the ten parchment folios that constitute the illuminated atlas of 1563 preserved at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (MS-14-1), with study text in an edition prepared by Luís de Albuquerque and Maria Catarina Henriques dos Santos. Unique edition of 3,000 numbered and initialed copies. The original codex, titled by the author himself ”Livro de Todo ho Univerço” (Book of the Whole Universe), is a masterpiece of 16th-century Portuguese cartography: ten parchment folios, in polychrome gouache drawings highlighted with gold, representing the four continents – Europe, Asia, Africa, and America – as they were known to European cartographers in the mid-16th century. The maps are richly decorated with golden compass roses, vignettes of flora and fauna, cities, river courses and mountain ranges, and ethnography of the peoples represented. Also included are tables of solar declination, the North Star's regiment, the Sun's regiment, and the Southern Cross's regiment. The last folio presents a watercolor drawing of Our Lady with the Child Jesus, to which the author added the only known reference to his identity: ”Lazaro Luis made this book of the whole universe and it was made in the era...”. Nothing more is known about Lázaro Luís beyond what this colophon reveals. The atlas was considered by Armando Cortesão, in his Cartography and Portuguese Cartographers of the 15th and 16th Centuries , as one of the most important works of Portuguese cartography of the 16th century. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate