[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,"…
Compendium 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…
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Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, Approximately 777 - Copho - Desparts, Jacques - Bonyn, Benoît, Active - Nicolaus, Salernitanus, 12th Century - Petrus, De Abano, Approximately 1250-Approximately 1315 - Champier, Symphorien,?-Approximately 1535
"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…
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Herberay, Nicolas De, Sieur Des Essars, Active 16th Century - Rodríguez De Montalvo, Garci, Flourished 1500
The 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.…
English 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…
Treatise 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…
Choral 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…
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Josquin, Des Prez, 1521 - La Rue, Pierre De, 1518 - Senfl, Ludwig, 543
A 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…
Flemish 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…