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3.
[Cosmographia]

Creator:
Apian, Peter, 1495-1552
Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555
Call Number:
Eq21 564Ab
Image Count:
72
Alternative Title:
Cosmographia Petri Apiani / per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum et mathematicum insignem, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta, & annotationibus marginalibus illustrata. ; Additis eiusdem argumenti
Subject (Geographic):
America --Early accounts to 1600
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography and Geography
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Cosmographia]

5.
The frontispiece of the cosmographical clock : representing the phnomena on Tuesday December the 3d

Creator:
Carte, John
Published / Created:
1700]
Call Number:
Folio BrSides By6 1700
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
With a large copperplate engraving of the clock-face, with a map of the world in the center.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The frontispiece of the cosmographical clock : representing the phnomena on Tuesday December the 3d 1700, three quarters past twelve / invented and made by John Carte, watch-maker in Garden-Court, near the fountain in the Middle-Temple, London

6.
Syria

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Arab countries, Middle East, and Syria
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Syria

7.
Sicilia

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Sicily (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sicilia

8.
Sarmatia

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Eastern
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sarmatia

10.
Portolan atlas

Creator:
Agnese, Battista, active 16th century
Published / Created:
1559
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 560
Image Count:
33
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of an atlas produced by the Genoese cartographer Battista Agnese (1514-1564) in Venice
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: inscriptions in black or red ink in Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence, and in Capitalis (the latter sometimes in gold)., Shield in yellow and blue with "Cosmo-Grra-Phia" in red. The maps show varying degrees of colouring., An atlas produced by the Genoese cartographer Battista Agnese (1514-1564) in Venice. Includes 23 maps in various colors, with many representations of people, ships, and landmarks., and Binding: de luxe binding, 19th or 20th century, by Rivière & Son: gold-tooled red morocco over pasteboard; gold-tooled title on spine:"PORTOLANO / DA / BATTISTA / AGNESE", and at the bottom: "1559".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Agnese, Battista, active 16th century.
Subject (Topic):
Atlases, Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Portolan atlas

11.
Peregrina historia and Grammaticon

Creator:
Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 586
Image Count:
158
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Pier Candido Decembrio (Petrus Candidus Decembrius, 1392/1399-1477), 1) Peregrina historia. 2) Grammaticon, a Latin grammar in two Books, dedicated to the Milanese lawyer Guarniero Castiglione
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: var. Briquet 6654 (?)., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under some Gothic influence (occasionally uncial d)., Pale red headings and explicit formulas. The scribe wrote guide-letters but the initials (height: 2 lines) are wanting., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Italian brown morocco over wooden boards bevelled at the inside, blind-tooled with rope interlace and other tools, with some gold. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Rebacked. On the spine a paper label with the handwritten title "Historia di Publio [sic] Candido". Parchment pastedowns. On the yellow-coloured fore-edge the title "P. Candid*" is inscribed.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Grammar, Comparative and general, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Language and languages, and Grammars
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Peregrina historia and Grammaticon

13.
Medianor, Meridies

Call Number:
Taylor 57
Collection Title:
Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani mathematici studiose collectus
Image Count:
1
Description:
Second position.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Early accounts to 1600
Subject (Name):
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek --Stamp
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography
Collection Created:
[Landshutae, 1524]
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medianor, Meridies

14.
Medianor, Meridies

Call Number:
Taylor 57
Collection Title:
Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani mathematici studiose collectus
Image Count:
1
Description:
First position.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Early accounts to 1600
Subject (Name):
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek --Stamp
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography
Collection Created:
[Landshutae, 1524]
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medianor, Meridies

15.
Libro dela Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano, el qual trata la descripcion del mundo, y sus partes, por

Creator:
Apian, Peter, 1495-1552
Call Number:
EQ6 A65
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Cosmographia. Spanish
Description:
BEIN EQ6 A65: Woodcut of mounted globe on t.p.; printer's mark on verso of last leaf; 4 revolving diagrams. Bookplate of Francisco Condeminas. Imperfect: leaves 54 and 63 slightly mutilated and restored. and Signatures: A-I4[K]2(map)L-T4.
Publisher:
en casa de Gregorio Bontio enel escudo de Basilea ...
Subject (Name):
Condeminas, Francisco--Bookplate and Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libro dela Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano, el qual trata la descripcion del mundo, y sus partes, por muy claro y lindo artificio, augmētado por el doctissimo varon Gemma Frisio ... con otros dos libros del dicho Gemma, de la materia mesma. Agora nueuamēte traduzidos en Romāce Castellano. M.D.XLVIII.

16.
Liber Hebraicarum questionum in Genesim, etc

Creator:
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Published / Created:
[between 1250 and 1275]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 322
Image Count:
456
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (well prepared, but with holes and end pieces) in four parts. Part I: 1) Jerome, Liber Hebraicarum questionum in Genesim. 2) Jerome, Epistola LXXVIII. 3) Jerome, Liber de situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum. 4) Jerome, Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum. 5) Abbreviated version of Jerome, Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum, De psalterio. 6) Greek alphabet, from alpha to omega; b) three systems of numbers: Roman numerals, Greek numbers transliterated into Roman letters, letters of the Greek alphabet. 7) Note diuine legi necessarie. Artt. 8-13: Commentaries by Pseudo-Jerome. Artt. 14-17: unidentified commentaries. 18) Unidentified lapidary. 19) De mensuris. 20) Part of a letter of Innocent III (dated 1142) concerning the disputed election at York of St. William Fitzherbert. Part II: 21) Rabanus Maurus, De universo, ending defectively in Book 19, ch. 8, sect. B. Part III: 22) Ambrose, Exameron. Part IV: 23) Eustathius, In Hexaemeron S. Basilii latina translatio
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-52): Written by a single scribe in small gothic textura. Part II (ff. 52-172): Written by two scribes in small gothic textura. Scribe 1) ff. 52r-160v; Scribe 2) ff. 161r-172v. Part III (ff. 173-200): Written by one scribe in small gothic textura. Numerous annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Part IV (ff. 201-222): Written by a single scribe in bold gothic textura., Part I: Spaces left for initials (5- to 1-line). Rubrics and running titles in red. Guide-letters and notes to rubricator, the latter along outer edges of most margins except inner. Part II: Spaces for initials, 6- to 3-line, left blank, with guide-letters in red. Initials within text stroked with red. Headings and some spiral line-fillers in red (lacking in ff. 161-172, final quire). Part III: 6-line initial, f. 173r, divided red and blue with penwork in the same colors; other initials, 3- to 1-line, in blue with red penwork or vice versa. Running titles in alternating red and blue versals. Headings in red. Guide-letters and notes to rubricator in most margins. Part IV: 3-line initial, f. 201r, red with blue penwork; 2-line initials red with blue or vice versa. Guide-letters still visible. Running titles in alternating red and blue versals. Headings in red., and Binding: 14th century. Apparently bound in England before arriving in Italy. Original sewing, wound and caught up, on five tawed skin, slit strap supports laced through tunnels in the edge to the outside of oak boards, laid in channels and pegged with rectangular pegs. The spine is square with no trace of adhesive. Quarter covered with vellum or tawed skin nailed along the edge. The boards are broken, the sewing breaking and most of the cover wanting; the boards were repaired in the 18th or 19th century when presumably the front flyleaf and pastedown from a document, in Italian, listing sale agreements made during 1650-52, were added.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber Hebraicarum questionum in Genesim, etc

17.
L'arte del navigare

Creator:
Cesareo, Agostino
Published / Created:
1568.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 562
Image Count:
174
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Agostino Cesareo (Rome, 16th century), L'arte del navigare
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by one scribe in careful Humanistica Cursive., Coloured and uncoloured diagrams, illustrations and maps., Many pages are spoiled by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the front cover the inscription "L'arte de ***"; on the rear cover contemporary calculations.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cesareo, Agostino.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Cosmography, Navigation, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'arte del navigare

18.
Italia

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Italia

21.
Hispania

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Spain
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hispania

22.
Germania

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Europe and Germany
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Germania

23.
Geographia quid

Call Number:
Taylor 57
Collection Title:
Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani mathematici studiose collectus
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Early accounts to 1600
Subject (Name):
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek --Stamp
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography
Collection Created:
[Landshutae, 1524]
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Geographia quid

24.
Gallia

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Europe and France
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gallia

25.
Epitome cosmografica, o Compendiosa introduttione all'astronomia, geografia, & idrografia : per

Creator:
Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
Published / Created:
1713.
Call Number:
1987 621
Image Count:
510
Description:
Signatures: Engraved t.p. *⁴ 2*⁸ [pi]² A-2C⁸ [croix fleurettée]⁸., Includes index., and "Dell'eccellenza invenzione, e progresso dell'astronomia, discorso del Sig. Carlo Malavista": p. [1]-[8] at end.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography and Astronomy
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitome cosmografica, o Compendiosa introduttione all'astronomia, geografia, & idrografia : per l'uso, e delucidatione de' globi, e tavole geografiche, particolarmente degli stampati, e spiegati nelle publiche lettioni

26.
De sphaera, etc

Creator:
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 335
Image Count:
96
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Joannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphaera. 2) Unidentified Cosmographicae libellus. 3) Nicolas Oresme, Traite de la sphere, in a Latin translation apparently extant only in this manuscript
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by one person in small fere-humanistic script bordering on cursive, verso., Simple decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in red. Headings, paragraph marks, strokes on majuscules at beginning of sentences, and marginal notes, in red., Seventeen carefully executed astronomical drawings and two tables, in red, black, yellow and beige, accompany arts. 1 and 3., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case. "Tractatus spere" on tail edge.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De sphaera, etc

27.
Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani mathematici studiose collectus.

Creator:
Apian, Peter, 1495-1552
Published / Created:
1524]
Call Number:
Taylor 57
Image Count:
5
Description:
BEIN Taylor 57: [cross]4 wanting. Two detatched illustrations to accompany "Instrumentum syderale" in appendix are tipped in on final p., Colophon: Excusum Landshutae typis ac formulis d. Joannis Weyssenburgers: impensis Petri Apiani. Anno Christi Saluatoris omnium millesimo / quingentesimo / vicesimoquarto / mense Janu: Phebo Saturni domicilium possidente., Illustration of a globe on t.p. is repeated on p. 47; globe shows view of Africa and Asia. Map of Europe, Africa and Asia on p. 53, map of Greece on p. 58., Includes four volvelles (on p. 17, 24, 63 and app., p. [2])., Signatures: [*]⁴ A-N⁴ [cross]⁴ ([cross]4 [blank?])., and Title and the headings in "Summa et ordo operis" are in red, as are also parts of vignette, arms of the Abp. of Salsburg on verso of t.p., to whom the work is dedicated, and sphere on page preceding text.
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600
Subject (Name):
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek--Stamp
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cosmographicus liber Petri Apiani mathematici studiose collectus.

30.
Coloquio de cosmographia

Creator:
Medina, Pedro de, 1493?-1567?
Published / Created:
1543.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 559
Image Count:
108
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Pedro de Medina, Coloquio de cosmographia and Regimiento del altura del sol y del Norte. Addition, in another hand, by a friend of Pedro de Medina and taken from a treatise in Italian on cosmography by a Florentine member of the Compagni family
Description:
In Spanish., Watermark: compare with Briquet 7567, 7578, 7584, 7601, 7602 (?)., Script: Written by one hand in Spanish Gothico-Humanistica. Headings in Capitalis., Majuscules heightened in dark yellow. Flourished initials in liquid gold with red penwork. Diagrams in pen and ink., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Blind-tooled brown leather over cardboard, both covers decorated with frames of rolls and single stamps in the center; two green silk ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Medina, Pedro de, 1493?-1567?
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Coloquio de cosmographia

32.
Asia Minor

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Asia Minor

33.
Asia

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Asia and India
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Asia

34.
Africa

Published / Created:
[1542]
Call Number:
Taylor 86
Collection Title:
Rvdimenta cosmographica
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, Arab countries, and Middle East
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Early maps, and Geography, Medieval
Collection Created:
Impressvm in inclyta Transylvaniae Corona 1542
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Africa

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