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Descriptio orae maritimae Frisiae orientalis et occidentalis

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 England
Description:
In Dutch and Latin., Script: copied by one hand in calligraphic Humanistic cursive script. The scribe's knowledge of Latin was defective., The illustration consists of two maps and numerous profiles of coastal landmarks, all in coloured pen and ink drawings. The profiles are copied from the woodcuts in the printed edition., and Binding: contemporary Dutch parchment binding, gold-tooled. On the flat spine the handwritten inscription in Southern Gothica Textualis: “Carta del navigare del mare Oceano”.
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

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The light of navigation. Wherein are declared and liuely pourtrayed all the coasts and hauens of

Creator:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.
Published / Created:
Anno 1622.
Call Number:
Taylor 291
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Collation: 162 p., maps 1-19; 130 p., maps 20-41., Imperfect: wormed., Only maps no. 13 & 14 are printed as double plates, the others are included in text., Signatures: A-D⁴ E-G⁶ H² I⁶ K² L⁴ M-Q² R⁴ S² T⁴ V² X⁸; A[a]² Bb⁴ Cc⁶ Dd-Ff² Gg⁶ Hh-Ii² Kk⁴ Ll² Mm⁶ Nn-Pp² Qq⁴ Rr² Ss⁸ Tt-Xx²., and The title-leaf is that of the Dutch ed. (Licht der zee-vaert, Amsterdam 1620), with the Dutch title covered by a slip bearing the English title as above.
Publisher:
Printed by VVilliam Iohnson, dwelling upon the VVater, by the Old Bridge, at the signed of the Golden Sundyall,
Subject (Name):
Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601., Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606., and Westmorland, Mildmay Fane,--Earl of,--1601-1666--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Naval art and science--Early works to 1800.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The light of navigation. Wherein are declared and liuely pourtrayed all the coasts and hauens of the West, North and East seas. Collected partly out of the books of the principall authors which haue written of navigation (as of Lucas Iohnson Waghenaer, and divers others) ... Divided into tvvo bookes. Hereunto are added ... new tables of the declination of the sunne, according to Tycho Brahes observations, applied to the meridian of Amsterdam ... By Williem Iohnson.