Collection Items
-
Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Mujallad al-awwal min Tafsīr Abī al-Saʻūd
المجلد الاول من تفسير ابي السعود | Tafsīr Abī al-Saʻūd Commentary on the Qurʾan. Shown here is the first volume of an unknown number of volumes comprising Irshād al-ʻaql al-salīm ilá mazāyá al-kitāb al-karīm (Guidance of the sound mind to the virtues…- Contributor: Abū Al-Saʻūd Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 1592
- Resource: PDF - 896
-
Manuscript/Mixed Material[Unnamed Sufi treatise] This manuscript in Persian is an untitled Sufi text on meditation containing both poetry and prose. It was completed in early 1520, probably in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) or Mashhad (present-day Iran). The…- Contributor: Mīr ʻalī Ḥusaynī Haravī
- Date: 1520
Resource: View All Images | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialA discourse in commendation of the valiant as vertuous minded gentleman, Maister Frauncis Drake, with a …
A discourse, in the commendation of Captaine Drakes trauayle. 1580 This small book by the Elizabethan writer Nicholas Breton (circa 1545-1622) is a work of praise addressed to Francis Drake for his voyage around the world of 1577-80. The fact that it…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Breton, Nicholas
- Date: 1581
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialYou ming shan yi lan ji : shi liu juan
游名山一覽記 : 十六卷 / | Ming shan ji | Title on spine of case: Ming shan zhu sheng yi lan ji | Ming shan yan dong chuan shi gu ji | You ming shan ji | You ming shan yan dong chuan shi gu ji | Ming shan zhu sheng yi lan ji Chinese works about famous mountains and other travel writings often combined details about the physical magnificence of mountains with information about certain religious and supernatural powers attributed to famous mountains. A number…- Contributor: Shen, Meng - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1576
-
Book/Printed MaterialHuang Ming jiu bian kao : shi juan
皇明九邊考 : 十卷 / | Jiu bian tu kao | Jiu bian kao The author of this important work on the history and geography of the Ming dynasty, Wei Huan, received his jin shi degree in 1529, and took up a number of posts. He…- Contributor: Wei, Huan - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wei, Yanyi
- Date: 1544
-
Book/Printed MaterialBei yue miao ji : shi juan
北嶽廟集 : 十卷 / The Northern Peak Temple was the official temple dedicated to Hengshan in northeast China, one of the Five Sacred Peaks, worshipped for generations. It is located in Quyang, central Hebei Province. Originally…- Contributor: Wei, Xueli - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - He, Chuguang
- Date: 1590
-
Book/Printed MaterialChong xiu jiang nan Huagai shan zhi : wu juan
重脩江南華盖山志 : 五卷 | Title on spine of case: Jiang nan Huagai shan zhi | Huagai Shan zhi | Jiang nan Huagai shan zhi Presented here is a printed edition of Chong xiu Jiangnan Huagai Shan zhi (A newly compiled gazetteer of Mount Huagai to the south of the Yangtze River) from the Jiajing reign (1522-66).…- Contributor: Zhang, Yuchu - Xu, Yunsheng - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1555
-
Book/Printed MaterialLes singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique : & de plusieurs terres & isles … André Thevet (1516/17-92) was a Franciscan friar who traveled widely and, through his writings, helped to establish cosmographie--as geography was called at the time--as a science in 16th-century France. After making trips…- Contributor: Maurice De La Porte Héritiers - Thevet, André
- Date: 1557
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Map[Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc.]
Title from Phillips: Portolan atlas containing 10 maps "Battista Agnese, one of the most important Italian Renaissance cartographers, was born in Genoa. He worked in Venice in the period 1536-64, and in about 1544 he produced this sumptuous and well-executed…- Contributor: Agnese, Battista
- Date: 1544
- Resource: [Portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, etc.] - Image - 17
-
Map[Geografia tavole moderne di geografia] "Antoine du Pérac Lafréry (1512-77) was a French engraver who settled in Rome, probably in the early 1540s, where he became a celebrated publisher of maps. Lafréry assembled and bound collections of…- Contributor: Lafréry, Antoine - Gastaldi, Giacomo - Forlani, Paolo
- Date: 1575
- Resource: Image - 17
-
Map[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the northwest coast of Africa]. Title supplied by cataloger. Attributed to Joan Oliva by John Wolter in A portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea and western European waters, with a world map, 1987. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on…- Contributor: Oliva, Joan
- Date: 1590-01-01
- Resource: Image - 5
-
MapUniversalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes
Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorū que lustrationes "Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map was the first map to depict a separate Western hemisphere with the Pacific as a separate ocean. The map grew out of an ambitious project in Saint-Dié,…- Contributor: Waldseemüller, Martin
- Date: 1507
-
MapNoua, et integra uniuersi orbis descriptio
Nova, et integra vniversi orbis descriptio | Nova, et integra universi orbis descriptio Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on paper, mounted on linen.- Contributor: Fine, Oronce
- Date: 1531-01-01
- Resource: Image
-
MapAmericae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio
Americae sive quartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio Covers North and South America with the adjacent seas. Relief shown pictorially. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, no. 1303. Originally printed on 6 sheets. Described in Quarterly Journal of the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Cock, Hieronymus - Gutiérrez, Diego
- Date: 1562-01-01
- Resource: Image
-
MapPervviae avriferae regionis typvs / La Florida / auctore Hieron. Chiaues ; Gvastecan reg
Florida | Guastecan reg | Gvastecan reg | Peruuiae auriferae regionis typus "Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) was a Flemish engraver and businessman who traveled widely to pursue his commercial interests. In 1560 he became interested in scientific geography during a voyage with Gerardus Mercator. Ortelius's…- Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Hurtado De Mendoza, Diego - Plantin, Christophe - Chaves, Geronimo
- Date: 1584
-
Map[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6] The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the…- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Boazio, Baptista - Croftes - Bigges, Walter - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1589
-
Map[The Oztoticpac lands map]. Aztec pictorial document showing litigation map of Oztoticpac, an estate in Texcoco, ca. 1540. Title derived from The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, "The Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco 1540,"…- Date: 1540-01-01
- Resource: Image
-
Map[Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Guatemala to northern Peru with the Galapagos Islands]. Spanish. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink; black, blue, green, and red. Trimmed to a rough rectangle. Matted and mounted between sheets of transparent lucite. LC Luso-Hispanic world, 28 LC Nautical charts on…- Date: 1565-01-01
- Resource: Image
-
MapHiberniae, Britannicae Insvlae nova descripto. Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 406 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Filed with Eastham Collection in G&M Vault: EA 20-A: ga61 02-20-2013- Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham
- Date: 1598-01-01
- Resource: Image
-
Map[La Coruña. El Ferrol, Spain] "This English manuscript double chart, in pen and water colors, on vellum, shows the harbors of La Coruña and El Ferrol in Spain. The date, localities depicted, and provenance of the charts…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1589
- Resource: Image
-
MapPortugalliae : que olim Lusitania, nouissima & exactissima descriptio "... anno MCCCCCLX." Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. ill. Text on verso. On verso: 14. Filed…- Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Seco, Fernando Alvares
- Date: 1560-01-01
- Resource: Image
-
Manuscript/Mixed MaterialYangzhou Fu tu shuo
揚州府圖說 Following the map of Yangzhou, there are 11 more maps, including Jiangdu, Guazhou, Yizhen, Qinxing, Gaoyou, Xinghua, Baoying, Qinzhou, Rugao, Tongzhou, and Haimen. Each map has a commentary appended. Some records of…- Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1573
- Resource: Juan 1 - Image - 26
-
Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKharīdat al-ʻajāyib wa-tuḥfat al-gharāyib
خريدة العجايب وتحفة الغرايب Kharīdat al-ʻAjā'ib wa Farīdat al-Gharā'ib (The perfect pearl of wonders and the precious pearl of extraordinary things) by Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar Ibn al-Wardī (died 1457) is a compilation of texts…- Contributor: Ibn Al-Wardī, Sirāj Al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻumar - Ibn Al-Wardī, Zayn Al-Dīn ʻumar Ibn Al-Muẓaffar
- Date: 15??
- Resource: PDF - 220
-
Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMultaqá al-abḥur Date of composition and author's name on p. [302]: Tamma ʻalá yad al-faqīr ... Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī ... bayn ṣalātayn yawm al-thalāthāʼ thālitha ʻashara Rajab ... sanat thalātha wa-ʻishrīn wa-tisʻumiʼah…- Contributor: Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 1517-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 488
-
Manuscript/Mixed Material[Unidentified treatise on prosody by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Najātī al-Nīsābūrī]
Kitāb-i ʻarūz̤-i Jāmī This treatise discusses different aspects of the art of versification, including meters, verses, letters, syllables, patterns of rhythm, and other topics relating to the poetic arts in early modern Persian poetry. The…- Contributor: Jāmī - Najātī, Maḥmūd Ibn ʻumar - Ibn Jamīl, Muḥammad ʻārif
- Date: 1527
Resource: View All Images | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialMing wu kao : er shi juan
名物考 : 二十卷 / | Si shu Ming wu kao Ming wu kao was a subtitle in the 100-juan work entitled Jing yan zhi zhi (Interpretations of the classics), written by Chen Yumo (1548-1618), which was listed in the catalog of Si…- Contributor: Zhang, Zhihou - Chen, Yumo - Chen, Yijing - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1573
-
Book/Printed MaterialDoctrina Christiana en lengua española y tagala Published in Manila in 1593, this catechism in Spanish and Tagalog is the first book printed in the Philippines. It is also the first book printed in a Philippine language and the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1593
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Book/Printed MaterialQabas al-ḍawʼ fī al-ḥisāb
قبس الضوء في الحساب Islamic law goes into great detail on the subject of the division of inheritances (farā'id) among heirs. For this reason, inheritances have received extensive treatment in books of fiqh (Islamic law) and…- Contributor: Ḥamīdī, ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn Aḥmad Ibn ʻalī - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1589
- Resource: PDF - 16
-
Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb matn al-Lumaʻ fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
كتاب متن اللمع في علم الحساب / | Lumaʻ fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb The treatise preserved in this manuscript, Al-Luma'al-yasīra fī 'ilm al-hisāb (The little sparkles on the science of calculation), deals with Muslim inheritance. Of the social innovations that came with the Islamic conquest,…- Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 15??
- Resource: PDF - 20
-
Manuscript/Mixed MaterialḌawʼ al-lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb
ضوء اللمع في الحساب Text is a poem on arithmetic dedicated to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Bahwashī al-Shāfiʻī, as mentioned at the end of the manuscript. This work is a versified treatise on…- Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Bahwāshī, Shihāb Al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Shams Al-Dīn Muḥammad - Ḥamīdī, ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn Aḥmad Ibn ʻalī - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
- Date: 1588
- Resource: PDF - 34
-
Manuscript/Mixed MaterialRisālah laṭīfah fī rasm al-munḥarifāt ʻalá al-ḥīṭān
رسالة لطيفة في رسم المنحرفات على الحيطان / | Jadāwil fī rasm al-munḥarifāt ʻalá al-ḥīṭān bi-ṭarīq ḥasan lam asbaq ilayh The challenge of calculating the positions and movements of celestial bodies for the purpose of preparing astronomical tables helped to stimulate the development of very sophisticated mathematical tools at least as far…- Contributor: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 15??
- Resource: PDF - 7
-
Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb qurrat al-ʻayn fī tasyīr al-nayyirayn
كتاب قرة العين في تسيير النيرين / | Title from fol. 1b: Qurrat al-ʻayn bi-tasyīr al-nayyirayn Little is known about the astronomer Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Khalīlī al-Jaʻbarī, who wrote the treatise Kitāb qurrat al-'ayn and prepared the accompanying astronomical tables preserved in this copy. Some information about…- Contributor: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Ibn Al-Shāṭir, ʻalī Ibn Ibrāhīm - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Jaʻbarī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻabd Al-Qādir
- Date: 1525
- Resource: PDF - 63
-
Book/Printed MaterialNicolai Copernici Torinensis De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : habes in hoc opere iam recens …
De revolutionibus orbium cœlestium | De revolvtionibvs orbium cœlestium | De revolvtionibus orbium cœlestium De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres), written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) and published just before his death, placed the sun at the center of the…- Contributor: Copernicus, Nicolaus - Petrejus, Johannes
- Date: 1543
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Dustūr
الدستور / Little is known about the author of this treatise on medical remedies, Nağīb al-Dīn Al-Samarqandī, apart from the fact that he was killed during the pillage of Herat (present-day Afghanistan) by the…- Contributor: Najīb Al-Dīn Al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻalī
- Date: 1514
- Resource: PDF - 66
-
Book/Printed Material[Book of hours] The Book of Hours was a prayer book for the laity that developed in late medieval Europe and that was used for private devotion. These works were often personalized for individual patrons…- Contributor: Derôme - Bure, Guillaume-François De - Hoe, Robert - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Guyot De Villeneuve, François Gustave Adolphe - Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field) - Catholic Church - Tory, Geoffroy - Beckford, William
- Date: 1524
Resource: View All Pages | PDF
-
Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb al-Uss fī al-ʻamal bi-al-sayf wa-al-turs. Wa-yalīhi Kitāb al-kifayah fī ʻilm al-rimāyah
كتاب الأس في العمل بالسيف والترس. ويليه كتاب الكفاية في علم الرماية / | Ass fī al-ʻamal bi-al-sayf wa-al-tars This original manuscript preserves two treatises, both written in the form of an urjuzah (type of Arabic poem) and copied by the author himself. The first one is entitled Kitāb al-Uss fī…- Contributor: Ḥamawī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻalī
- Date: 1591
- Resource: PDF - 102
-
Book/Printed MaterialJiang Han ti fang tu kao
江漢隄防圖考 / The work was compiled by Shi Duchen, who received the title of jin shi (doctoral degree) in the 35th year of the Jiajing reign (1556) and later became the governor of Shuntian…- Contributor: Shi, Duchen - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zhao, Xian
- Date: 1567
-
Book/Printed MaterialTao gong huan jin shu : yi juan
陶公還金術 : 一卷 / | Huan jin shu In the preface the author, Tao Zhi, refers to himself as "Qi wan", the Emperor's relative; this implied that his research into Daoism was carried out in the Emperor's name during the…- Contributor: Tao, Zhi - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Shao, Fu
- Date: 1546
-
Book/Printed MaterialXi cha hui cao : er juan
西槎彙草 : 二卷 Purportedly taken from the collections of Tian Yi Pavilion by a person from the Han lin yuan. The collection seal on the right side of the bottom of the cover has been…- Contributor: Gong, Hui - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1533
-
Book/Printed MaterialNanjing xing bu zhi : si juan : juan shou yi juan
南京刑部志 : 四卷 : 卷首一卷 After Emperor Yongle of the Ming dynasty moved the capital to Beijing in 1420, the bureaucratic administrative organs, such as the six bureaus, remained in the old capital, Nanjing, on a smaller…- Contributor: Gao, Dong - Pang, Song - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zeng, Jun
- Date: 1555