Papers pertaining to the 1789 Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America. Under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, the expedition sailed from Cadiz to the west coast of Africa, across the Atlantic to South America, south to the Falk...
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America and Northwest Passage.
Subject (Name):
Cordova, Luis de., Eguia, Manuel de., Fernán-Núñez, Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot, conde de, 1742-1795., Gutierrez de Rubalcava, Joaquin., Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809., Mazarredo, Joseph., Muñoz, Xavier, fl. 1786., Revillagigedo, Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, conde de, 1740-1799., Sesma, Fermin., Sevena, Pedro de., Valdés y Bazan, Antonio, 1744-1816., Atrevida (Corvette), and Descubierta (Corvette)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages around the world, Discovery and exploration, and Spanish
Manuscript on paper (sturdy; staggered thumb holes at bottom of leaves) of Antiphons for suffrages. With liturgies and offices for various occasions. Written during the 16th century presumably for Franciscan use and supplemented during the 17th centur...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Durand of Huesca (ca. 1160-1224?), Biblical Distinctiones, an early 13th-century revision of Peter of Capua's (d. 1214) Alphabetum in artem sermocinandi. Marston MS 266 is apparently the only known witness to Durand's revisi...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Durand, of Huesca. and Peter, of Capua, Cardinal.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment of Carta Ejecutoria, or letter of nobility, issued in the names of Lope Goncalez de Valdes and Pedro Goncalez de Valdes, by the authority of Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, dated 12 September 1550 in Granada. Seal ...
Description:
In Spanish.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Spain., and Granada (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Nobility
