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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: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Wei, Huan - Wei, Yanyi
- Date: 1544
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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
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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
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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
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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: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Tao, Zhi - Shao, Fu
- Date: 1546
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Book/Printed MaterialBailu Dong shu yuan xin zhi : ba juan
白鹿洞書院新志 : 八卷 / Originally written in 1510 by Li Mengyang when he was associate official in charge of education in Jiangxi Province, the text was revised by Zhou Guang and others between that time and…- Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - LI, Mengyang - Zhou, Guang
- Date: 1541
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Book/Printed MaterialJiajing er shi wu nian Guizhou xiang shi lu : yi juan
嘉靖二十五年貴州鄉試錄 : 一卷 | Title on spine of case: Guizhou xiang shi lu | Guizhou xiang shi lu This is a collection of Guizhou provincial civil examination records dated the 25th year (1546) of the Jiajing reign (1522-66) of the Ming dynasty. The civil examination system in China began in…- Contributor: Mao, Yiyu - Shao, Fang - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1546
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLi jing lei bian : san shi juan
禮經類編 : 三十卷 This work was compiled by Li Jinglun (1507-57), a scholar with a first-rank degree at the county-level civil examination, who later devoted himself to writing and prided himself on his knowledge of…- Contributor: LI, Jinglun - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1541
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Book/Printed MaterialSunzhenren bei ji qian jin yao fang : jiu shi san juan
孫真人備急千金要方 : 九十三卷 Sun Simiao (581-682), a native of Huayuan, Jingzhao (Shaanxi Province), was a renowned Daoist and physician during the Sui and Tang dynasties. He was called "King of Medicine." Both Emperor Wendi of…- Contributor: Sun, Simiao, 581-682
- Date: 1543
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Defense and Illustration of the French Language.
La Deffence, et illustration de la langue francoyse Joachim Du Bellay was born in Anjou, western France, in about 1522. In 1549, he published l'Olive (The olive), his first collection of sonnets and the first cycle of love sonnets in…- Contributor: Du Bellay, Joachim
- Date: 1549-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 100
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Qurʼan in the Earliest Printed Version, with the Life and Teachings of Muhammad and Other …
Machvmetis Saracenorvm Principis eivsq́ve svccessorvm vitae, ac doctrina, ipséqve Alcoran This volume contains the first-ever printing of the Qurʼan, presented in the 12th-century Latin translation by the English scholar Robert of Ketton. This translation was commissioned by Abbot Peter the Venerable of…- Contributor: Bibliander, Theodorus - Luther, Martin - Ricoldo, Da Montecroce - John VI, Cantacuzenus, Emperor of the East - Robert, of Chester, Flourished 1143
- Date: 1543-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 890
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Method of Medicine.
Methodvs medendi certa, clara et brevis, pleraqus quae ad medicinae partes omnes, praecipuè quae ad chirurgiam requiruntur, libris III exponẽs This book is a compendium of medical works, printed in Basel in 1541 by the shop of Heinrich Petri (1508--79), also known by his Latinized name Henricus Petrus. It includes the Latin…- Contributor: Petri, Heinrich - Constantine, the African - Ruggero, Frugardo, Approximately 1140 - Rolandus, Parmensis, Flourished 1264 - Abū Al-Qāsim Khalaf Ibn ʻabbās Al-Zahrāwī, 1013 - Gazio, Antonio
- Date: 1541-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 192
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Book/Printed MaterialCommentary on the Chapter Nine of the Book of Medicine Dedicated to Mansur.
Commentaria in nonum librum Rasis ad regem Almansorem This work is a commentary in Latin by Italian professor and physician Giovanni Arcolani (died 1484, also known as Ioannis Arculani) on the ninth book of Kitāb al-ṭibb al-Manṣūrī (The book of…- Contributor: Arcolani, Giovanni, 1484 - Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925
- Date: 1542-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 266
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Book/Printed MaterialCompendium of Medical Texts by Mesue, with Additional Writings by Various Authors.
Textus Mesue. Doctorum celeberrimorum artis peonie cognomina... Mesue vita. Canones universales ... Mesue de consolatione medicinarum: et correctione operationum earumdem. Grabadin ejusdem Mesue medicinarum universalium quod antidotarium nuncupatur. Liber ejusdem medicinarum particularium. Additio Petri Apponi ... in librum Joannis Mesue. Antidotarium ... Nicolai. Cophonis ... Isagoge. Summula Jacobi de Partibus per alphabetum super plurimis remediis ex antidotario ipsius Mesue excerptis The renowned Nestorian Persian physician Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh (circa 777--857), known in the Latin West as Mesue, was born in Samarra, present-day Iraq. According to al-Qiftī, Yūḥannā's father, Abu Yūḥannā Māsawayh, a…- Contributor: Petrus, De Abano, Approximately 1250-Approximately 1315 - Nicolaus, Salernitanus, 12th Century - Copho - Bonyn, Benoît, Active - Champier, Symphorien,?-Approximately 1535 - Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, Approximately 777 - Desparts, Jacques
- Date: 1540-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 355
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Seven Books on the Therapeutic Method, Which Is the Art of Curing, by John of …
Iani Damasceni Decapolitani summæ inter Arabes autoritatis medici, Therapeuticae methodi hoc est, curandi artis libri VII Yúhānnā Ibn Serapion was a ninth-century Nestorian physician known in the West as Serapion. He wrote two medical compendia (al-kunnāsh, in Arabic) in his native language of Syriac, the first in seven…- Contributor: Petri, Heinrich - Ibn Serapion, Yúhānnā, 9th Century - Thorer, Alban - Gherardo, Da Cremona,4
- Date: 1543-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 521
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Book/Printed MaterialA So Far Unpublished Book on the Judgments of the Nativities by Abū 'Alī, the Arabic …
Albohali Arabis Astrologi ... De Judiciis Nativitatum liber unus, antehac non editus Yaḥyá ibn Ghālib Khayyāṭ (died circa 835) was an astrologer and pupil of the great Jewish-Persian astrologer Māshāʼallāh (circa 730--circa 815). He was known to mediaeval Christendom as Albohali (variants include Alghihac…- Contributor: Heller, Joachim - Khayyāṭ, Yaḥyá Ibn Ghālib, Died Approximately 835 - Monte, Giovanni Battista Da - Joannes, Hispalensis, Flourished - Neuber, Ulrich, 1571
- Date: 1549-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 69
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Book/Printed Material"Amadis of Gaul." Book One.
Le Premier livre de Amadis de Gaule, qui traicte de maintes adventures d'armes & d'amours, qu'eurent plusieurs chevaliers & dames, tant du royaulme de la Grand Bretaigne, que d'aultres pays Amadis de Gaule (Amadis of Gaul) is a chivalric romance novel by Rodriguez de Montalvo, who based it on stories that had been circulating on the Iberian Peninsula since the 1360s. The…- Contributor: Herberay, Nicolas De, Sieur Des Essars, Active 16th Century - Rodríguez De Montalvo, Garci, Flourished 1500
- Date: 1540-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 308
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Essentials of Arithmetic. Bahā' al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-'Āmilī, also known as Sheiykh Bahā'ī, was a famous polymath and intellectual luminary of Safavid Persia. He was born in 1547 (953 AH) near the Jabal 'Āmila…- Contributor: Milī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn
- Date: 1547-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 58
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Book/Printed MaterialPublication of Offices.
Notitia Dignitatum (Sammelhandschrift) The Notitia dignitatum is a state paper that documents virtually the whole of the civil and military organization of the Roman Empire as it existed after the reforms of Emperor Diocletian (ruled,…- Date: 1542-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 452
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Lower Sorbian Testament of Miklawuš Jakubica, 1548.
Das niedersorbische Testament des Miklawuš Jakubica 1548 This 669-page manuscript contains the complete translation of the New Testament into Lower Sorbian by Pastor Miklawus Jakubica. It is one of the most important cultural documents relating to the Sorbian people…- Contributor: Jakubica, Miklawš, 16th Century
- Date: 1548-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 698
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Triumphs of Maximilian.
Turnierbuch Among the many endeavors undertaken by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459--1519) to further his legacy was his plan of a monumental allegorical triumph, to be composed of more than 200 woodcuts.…- Contributor: Burgkmair, Hans
- Date: 1540-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 54
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Secret Book of Honors of the Fugger Family.
Das Geheime Ehrenbuch der Fugger The history of the Fugger family can be seen as an unparalleled success story of the German Renaissance. Starting as weavers in the second half of the 14th century, the family quickly…- Contributor: Breu, Jörg - Jäger, Clemens
- Date: 1545-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 532
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Book/Printed MaterialEnglish Coats of Arms.
Insignia Anglica In the mid-16th century, tradesmen working for the Fugger mercantile and banking empire and commissioned by the Augsburg patrician and book lover Johann Jakob Fugger were busy acquiring new treasures, from sources…- Date: 1540-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialSixth Book on Architecture: On Habitations in and outside the Cities.
Sesto libro d'architettura. Delle habitationi fuori e dentro delle città The rediscovery in 1414 of the manuscript of De architectura libri decem (The ten books on architecture) by Vitruvius (circa 80--15 BC), the only treatise on architecture handed down from antiquity, caused…- Contributor: Serlio, Sebastiano
- Date: 1547-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 171
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Book/Printed MaterialTreatise on Field Fortifications.
Trattato delle fortificazione di Terra Giovan Battista Belluzzi (1506--54) was a San Marino native who served as chief military engineer to Cosimo I de' Medici (1519--74), duke of Florence. This manuscript, believed to be in Belluzzi's own…- Contributor: Belluzzi, Giovan Battista
- Date: 1540-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 98
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Book/Printed MaterialChoral Collection with Masses from the Josquin des Prez Period. This choir book with masses from the Low Countries and Burgundy-including a mass by Josquin des Prez (circa 1440-1521)-was made for the Count Palatine, later Elector Palatine, Ottheinrich. The contents are a…- Contributor: Senfl, Ludwig, 543 - Josquin, Des Prez, 1521 - La Rue, Pierre De, 1518
- Date: 1540-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 424
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Book/Printed MaterialTrilingual Manuscript Copy of Part Two of Antonio de Nebrija's "Dictionarium ex Hispaniensi in Latinum Sermonem".
Dictionarium ex Hisniensi in Latinum sermonem Fray Bernardino de Sahagún was a Franciscan missionary who arrived in Mexico from Spain in 1529 and stayed until his death in 1590. He worked with the indigenous peoples of the area…- Contributor: Sahagún, Bernardino De - Nebrija, Antonio De
- Date: 1540-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 322
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Book/Printed MaterialA Sequence of Sermons for Sundays and Saints' Days in Nahuatl.
Siguense unos sermones de dominicas y de santos en lengua mexicana Fray Bernardino de Sahagún was a Franciscan missionary who arrived in Mexico from Spain in 1529 and stayed until his death in 1590. He worked with the indigenous peoples of the area…- Contributor: Sahagún, Bernardino De
- Date: 1540-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 200
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MapAtlas of Battista Agnese.
Atlas de Battista Agnese Battista Agnese (circa 1500--1564) was an Italian cartographer, born in Genoa, who worked in Venice between 1536 and 1564 and became one of the most important figures in Renaissance cartography. He created…- Contributor: Agnese, Battista
- Date: 1544-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 17
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MapA New, More True and Complete Description of the Whole World, First Published by Alonzo de …
Nova verior et integra totivs orbis descriptio nvne primvm in lvcem edita per Alfonsvm de sancta crvz Cæsaris Charoli V archicosmographvm, MDXLII Alonzo de Santa Cruz (1505--67) was a well-known Spanish cartographer. As cosmographer at the Casa de contratación, the business enterprise in Seville that had a monopoly on the trade with the New…- Contributor: Santa Cruz, Alonso De
- Date: 1542-01-01
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MapNautical Atlas of Battista Agnese. Battista Agnese (1514-64) was a masterful geographer and mapmaker. Born in Genoa, he worked in Venice from 1536 to 1564 and became one of the most important figures in Renaissance cartography. Researchers…- Contributor: Agnese, Battista
- Date: 1541-01-01
- Resource: PDF - 23
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Photo, Print, DrawingFlemish Paintings on Tables. In the late 15th and first half of the 16th centuries, the cultivation, refining, and marketing of sugar became a major part of the expanding economy of the Canary Islands. The main…- Contributor: Amberes, Gumart De
- Date: 1540-01-01
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