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
Manuscript documents and letters, illustrating the daily life and responsibilities of sea captains in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The collection includes documents relating to Captain Robert Poultney in Jamaica and letters on personal and naval...
Description:
Robert Poultney was the captain of the ship Loretta in Jamaica in 1762-1764.
Subject (Geographic):
Mediterranean Region and Brittany (France)
Subject (Name):
Poultney, Robert., Wainwright, John, Captain., Chiffonne (Ship), Great Britain. Royal Navy, and Loretta (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Sea life, Aids to navigation, Coasts, Navigation, Seafaring life, Ship captains, and Description and travel
Manuscript on paper of Christophorus Columbus (Christopher C.,1451-1506), Epistola de insulis de novo repertis. Relation of his first voyage to America (1492-1493), addressed to Raphael Sanchez and translated into Latin by Leander de Cosco, dated 14 M...
Description:
In Latin and Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and North America
Subject (Name):
Columbus, Christopher.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Navigation, and Description and travel
Manuscript on paper (watermarks buried in gutter) of Gregorio (or Leonardo?) Dati, La Sfera. This rhyming treatise (ottava rima) is divided into two parts: 1) a treatise on astronomy; 2) rules for navigation and the determination of the position of th...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Italian poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Early maps, and Navigation
Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada
Description:
BEIN Z6 14: For other issues of the same year and their variations; cf. Sabin's Dictionary and the Church catalogue, vol. 3, 1907, pp. 976-981, no. 420. The Yale copy has also the following peculiarities: page 272 (1st count) is misnumbered 262; p. 2...
Publisher:
Chez Pierre LeMvr, dans la grand' salle du Palais
Subject (Geographic):
Canada and America
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Huron and French, Indians of North America, Navigation, Wyandot language, Montagnais language, Discovery and exploration, and French
BEIN 1974 Folio 72: [4] p. of ms. sailing log ("Remarks &c. on the Bee transport, Southampton River"), dated Oct. 8, 1795-Nov. 10, 1795, bound in at end.
Publisher:
Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and son, on Tower-Hill
