Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
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1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration --Spanish --Early works to 1800 and America --Early accounts to 1600
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616, and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599
Subject (Topic):
Indians
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
Appeared in Jansson's Accuratissima orbis antiqui delineatio., Covers also a portion of Libya., Manuscript notes on map. Manuscript number in upper left corner: 52., Oriented with north to the right., and Relief shown pictorially.
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664. Accuratissima orbis antiqui delineatio
Manuscript on paper of a collection of extracts from various alchemical and medical writers. Includes John of Rupescissa, Liber de confectione veri lapidis; and Arnold of Villanova, De perfectione operis alkimie. Compiled by one Johannes Baptista F., along with Mellon MSS 34 and 36.
Description:
Binding: Original parchment over pasteboards with remains of thong ties; probably a home-made binding utilizing used parchment (show-through of writing visible) from a document, plain edges. Labeled in ink in the hand of the compiler on the backstrip: "Medicina astrologia." Loose in cover and wormed., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 23, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., In Latin, Italian, and Spanish., and Script: Written by one or perhaps two hands in mid-16th-century italic, sometimes of excellent, professional quality, but often ranging from fairly good to extremely bad and careless.
Subject (Name):
Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311. and Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Italian poetry--16th century., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Americae pars sexta, sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptae, sectio tertia
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1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Early accounts to 1600, Canary Islands --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Florida --History --Huguenot colony, 1562-1565, Peru --History --Conquest, 1522-1548, and Western Hemisphere --Maps --
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3. Latin and Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598