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
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 on paper made by an unknown Venetian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. This manuscript is highly interesting for the excellent drawings of contemporary Mediterranean sailing-ships
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Islands of the Mediterranean.
Subject (Topic):
Atlases, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sailing ships
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
Broadway (Worcestershire, England)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Savage, Geo., Esqr
Subject (Topic):
Landowners--England--Worcestershire--Broadway--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800, Manuscript maps, and Real property--England--Worcestershire--Broadway--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
"[Juan] Dominguez [Y Valdez] was granted a colonization contract by the Texas government on July 6, 1829....the contract expired in 1835"--Taylor, V.H. Dominguez Y Valdez, Juan, in The handbook of Texas online. Texas Historical Association. 1997-2001....
Subject (Geographic):
Dominguez Grant (Tex.)--Maps, Manuscript and Texas--Maps, Manuscript
Subject (Name):
Streeter, Thomas W.--(Thomas Winthrop),--1883-1965--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Land grants--Texas--Maps, Manuscript and Manuscript maps