Coloquio de cosmographia

Description

Title: Coloquio de cosmographia
Creator: Medina, Pedro de, 1493?-1567?
Published / Created: 1543.
Publication Place: Spain
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Pedro de Medina, Coloquio de cosmographia and Regimiento del altura del sol y del Norte. Addition, in another hand, by a friend of Pedro de Medina and taken from a treatise in Italian on cosmography by a Florentine member of the Compagni family
Description: In Spanish.
Watermark: compare with Briquet 7567, 7578, 7584, 7601, 7602 (?).
Script: Written by one hand in Spanish Gothico-Humanistica. Headings in Capitalis.
Majuscules heightened in dark yellow. Flourished initials in liquid gold with red penwork. Diagrams in pen and ink.
Binding: Sixteenth century. Blind-tooled brown leather over cardboard, both covers decorated with frames of rolls and single stamps in the center; two green silk ties.
Provenance: Bequest of Henry C. Taylor, 1971.
Extent: ff. 50 : 275 x 210 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Spanish

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Spain 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Medina, Pedro de, 1493?-1567?
Subject (Topic): Cosmography
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Medina, Pedro de, 1493?-1567?
Cosmography > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Spain > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Pedro de Medina, Coloquio de Cosmographia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.