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2.
- Creator:
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, -1468, creator
- Published / Created:
- 1464.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 557
- Image Count:
- 140
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Benedetto Cotrugli (Benedictus de Cotrullis, c. 1410-1469), De navigatione liber (Della navigazione). After the prologue in Latin addressed to the Doge and the Senate of Venice, the author, quoting countless Biblical, ancient,...
- Description:
- The author, born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), was a businessman and humanist, from 1451 onwards in favour at the Court of Naples. His Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto, written in 1458, was for a long time considered his only surviving work. Our manus...
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, d. 1468.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Navigation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De navigatione
3.
- Creator:
- Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1592]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 564
- Image Count:
- 105
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Descriptio Orae Maritimae Frisiae. With 2 maps on vellum: the first, with Dutch place names and Latin legend, shows the coast of the Netherlands. The other, also in Dutch, shows the southern coast of En...
- Description:
- In Dutch and Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, and Netherlands
- Subject (Name):
- Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Descriptio orae maritimae Frisiae orientalis et occidentalis
4.
- Creator:
- Agnese, Battista, active 16th century
- Published / Created:
- 1559
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 560
- Image Count:
- 33
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of an atlas produced by the Genoese cartographer Battista Agnese (1514-1564) in Venice
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Agnese, Battista, active 16th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Atlases, Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Portolan atlas
5.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 506
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 18
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment roll, consisting of five skins pasted together, of an untitled list of 267 courses mentioning distances between two places and the bearing according to a 32-point compass, in Venetian dialect
- Description:
- In Italian (Venetian dialect).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and Manuscript maps
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Portolano for the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea ("Marston Portolano").
6.
- Published / Created:
- [1590-1599?]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1191
- Container / Volume:
- Box (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript portolan chart, on parchment, for the western Mediterranean, showing the coasts of North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and the British Isles
- Description:
- In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscript maps and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Portolano for the western Mediterranean
