Contributor:
Boazio, Baptista - Bigges, Walter - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Croftes
Date:1589
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)
Qabas 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:
Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥamīdī, ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Ibn Aḥmad Ibn ʻalī
Bao ying quan shu
保嬰全書
Bao ying quan shu (Complete book on infant care) was compiled by Xue Kai and expanded by Xue Ji, his son. This edition was printed in the 17th year (1589) of the…
Contributor:
Xue, Kai, Active - Wang, Ji - Gong, Yiqing - Zhao, Kehuai - Xue, Ji
Date:1589
Book/Printed Material
Collection of Short Love Poems by Jāmī.
This is an illuminated and illustrated manuscript of a small collection of short love poems of the type called tarjī`band by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE).…
Zemaitija Land Court Year Book for 1589-90.
At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland,…
Saint Augustine Map, 1589.
This engraved hand-colored map or view-plan by Baptista Boazio depicts Sir Francis Drake's attack on Saint Augustine on May 28-29, 1586. Boazio, an Italian who worked in London from about 1585 to…
Wallachia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania.
Walachia, Servia, Bulgaria, Romania
Gerard Mercator (1512--94) was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders (Belgium). His given name was Gerard de Kremer or Cremer. "Mercator," meaning "merchant," is a Latinized version of his Flemish last name. He…
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…
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…
Book/Printed MaterialQabas al-ḍawʼ fī al-ḥisāb
Book/Printed MaterialBao ying quan shu
Book/Printed MaterialCollection of Short Love Poems by Jāmī. This is an illuminated and illustrated manuscript of a small collection of short love poems of the type called tarjī`band by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE).…
Book/Printed MaterialZemaitija Land Court Year Book for 1589-90. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland,…
MapSaint Augustine Map, 1589. This engraved hand-colored map or view-plan by Baptista Boazio depicts Sir Francis Drake's attack on Saint Augustine on May 28-29, 1586. Boazio, an Italian who worked in London from about 1585 to…
MapWallachia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania.