A journal of a voyage from England to Java by way of Nosy-Be and other islands near Madagascar, Madras, Masulipatam, and the Persian Gulf. A number of charts and a description of the Asada settlement are included.
Creator:
Wylde, Charles
Created:
1650
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Handwritten minutes for the regular board meeting of the Orr Farmers' Cooperative Trading Company, founded in 1919 and affiliated with the Central Cooperative Wholesale based in Superior, Wis., Orr, Minnesota.
Creator:
Wierimao, Waino
Contributor:
Orr Farmers' Cooperative Trading Company (Orr, Minn.)
Created:
1963-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Includes travel accounts by Frère Hayton, Wilhelm von Boldensele, Theodericus of Würzburg, Godfrey of Bouillon, Sir John Mandeville, Jacopo da Verona, Joannes de Hese, Jordanus (canonicus osnaburgensis), Henricus de Hispania, and Alexander of Tralles.
Creator:
von Boldensele, Wilhelm, approximately 1285-approximately 1338; Mandeville, Sir John; de Hese, Joannes; Phillipps, Sir Thomas, 1792-1872; Hayton, Frère, approximately 1235-approximately 1314; Theodericus, of Würzburg, active 1172; Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100; da Verona, Jacopo, active 1335; Jordanus, canonicus osnaburgensis; Henricus, de Hispania; Alexander, of Tralles, approximately 525-approximately 605
Created:
1424
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Includes travel accounts by Frère Hayton, Wilhelm von Boldensele, Theodericus of Würzburg, Godfrey of Bouillon, Sir John Mandeville, Jacopo da Verona, Joannes de Hese, Jordanus (canonicus osnaburgensis), Henricus de Hispania, and Alexander of Tralles.
Creator:
von Boldensele, Wilhelm, approximately 1285-approximately 1338; Mandeville, Sir John; de Hese, Joannes; Phillipps, Sir Thomas, 1792-1872; Hayton, Frère, approximately 1235-approximately 1314; Theodericus, of Würzburg, active 1172; Godfrey, of Bouillon, approximately 1060-1100; da Verona, Jacopo, active 1335; Jordanus, canonicus osnaburgensis; Henricus, de Hispania; Alexander, of Tralles, approximately 525-approximately 605
Created:
1424
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Memoria recounts the victory of the mission Indians against a troop of slave raiders from Sao Paulo (400 Portuguese and 1000 Indian allies). Includes testimonies of various witnesses assembled by the Jesuits.
Creator:
Ureña, Padre Thomas
Created:
1641
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
General Boatner’s 50-page statement refuting, rebutting, and correcting certain passages in Ms Tuchman’s book, which refer to either General Boatner’s career in the China-Burma-India theatre, World War II, or to events in which he participated.
Creator:
Thanks Boatner, Haydon Lemaire, 1900-1977
Created:
1971?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Upper Midwest Literary Archives.
Contents: Edit. 23 items (p. 1-9): “Remarques” on the 23 items (pp. 9-65); “Edit de l’Empereur de Chine ordonnant des largesses (a son avenement a la Coronne)” (p. 67-84), “Testamentum Imperaticis ex qua natus Imperator hodie Regnas Apud Sinas” (pp. 85-88); “Notae” (pp. 89-93) The death of the Emperor K’ang-hsi (1654-1722; emperor 1662-1722) occ...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1725?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This is a critique of the Chinese work I Ching(the Book of Changes) associated with Confucian science and doctrine. Probably written by a Jesuit, this manuscript is included in, and appears to have been bound with, a group of Jesuit documents of the early 18th century. The author attacks the overall concepts and cites particular texts as contrar...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1725?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This manuscript work is a critique of a printed attempt to identify events in Chinese history by their dates in Western chronology – to merge the two chronologies into one all-encompassing chronology (at page [3] the evidence of eclipses is cited). The critique is an essay on the nature of Chinese history, especially its early history, and on Ch...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1727?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Shu-King, sometimes described as the “Canon of History” and the oldest source of pre-Confucian history – indeed, it is supposed to have been edited by Confucius himself – begins by extolling the virtues of the Emperor Yau and his successor Shun. A combination of good qualities, their lives were examples of perfection to be admired and emulat...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1725?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
By 1732 activities of European missions had been reduced by two decades of Chinese policy to the trading ports of Canton and Macao. This account of overt Chinese xenophobia was written shortly after the events described. The extensive crackdown began on August 20 with a search for fugitives believed to have sought safety in the eight churches in...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1732
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Extract from a manuscript on Chinese astronomy listing 29 constellations, their notation, longitude, grade, and signs. On the verso, crossed out in contemporary ink, is an unfinished list of Chinese fixed constellations compared with the longitudes of Tycho Brahe’s tables of 1628.
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1725 - 1732
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Father Moraon Affair items are Manuscripts in Latin and Italian, contemporary copies of letters written in China in 1727. Written in Roman cursive, the first and second in the same hand. The execution of the Portuguese Jesuit João Morão late in 1726 or early 1727 marked the last stage of the remarkable relationship between the Jesuits and th...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1727
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Father Moraon Affair items are Manuscripts in Latin and Italian, contemporary copies of letters written in China in 1727. Written in Roman cursive, the first and second in the same hand. The execution of the Portuguese Jesuit João Morão late in 1726 or early 1727 marked the last stage of the remarkable relationship between the Jesuits and th...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1727
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Father Moraon Affair items are Manuscripts in Latin and Italian, contemporary copies of letters written in China in 1727. Written in Roman cursive, the first and second in the same hand. The execution of the Portuguese Jesuit João Morão late in 1726 or early 1727 marked the last stage of the remarkable relationship between the Jesuits and th...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1727
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
In this manuscript there is a narrow (2-inch) column along the left side of the page under the heading “Texte pur traduit litteralment.” The 5 ½ inches on the right of the page is a column headed “Notes et reflexions.” Syzygy in astronomy: the point of an orbit, as of the moon, at which the planet is in conjunction or opposition. A translation a...
Creator:
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Created:
1725 - 1732
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The Byza Bae was the widow of the Maharajah of Gwalior. On his death in 1827, she assumed the sovereignty of his dominions, professedly as regent. This narrative deals with her struggles to retain her power against the intrigues of her adopted son. It discusses the attitude of the British government and Sleeman did not want it published until af...
Creator:
Sleeman, William Henry, Sir, 1788-1856
Created:
1850
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
A section of a letter written by John Simuradik of the Slovak Roman and Greek Catholic Fraternal Society (FCSU lodge #306) to the FCSU Secretary General, Jan Sabol, Wharton, New Jersey.
Creator:
Simuradik, John
Created:
1928-06-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
A report on the commerce within the jurisdiction of the customs inspector of La Rochelle, including information on the privileges of the various trading companies, merchant trade in Sainte-Domingue, and the Canadian beaver trade.
Creator:
Ricoul, François
Created:
1689
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Handwritten minutes for the Mt. Iron-Kinney-Cherry Parish board meeting from the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran (Messiah Lutheran) Church ledger, Mt. Iron, Minnesota. Beginning in 1954 the minutes are written in English instead of Finnish.
Creator:
Reufors, Hans
Contributor:
Mt. Iron-Kinney-Cherry Parish
Created:
1954
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
A record book consisting chiefly of the minutes of the council which administered the district of Misiones in Brazil and decided cases relating to Indians who were allotted for service to the landowners.
Creator:
Portugal. Junta de missoes
Created:
1759
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Folio contains two large tables detailing the import and export of various kinds of tobacco products and their destinations for the year 1784. The second table contains an endnote from the Contador General confirming the tally and accounting for missing merchandise. Inside the folio is a letter from estanco official Mariano del Solar to the Cont...
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1784 - 1786
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Folio contains records of the import-export duties paid to the royal customs warehouse in Callao. Fees were paid on manufactures, foodstuffs, currency, postal deliveries, and enslaved persons. The names of the merchants, and sometimes the ship involved, are also included.
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1910-03-05 - 1912-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The folio contains records of the media anata, mesadas, novenos and pulperias for 1734. The media anata was a royal tax equal to one-half the first year’s income of an official post, to be paid before possession. The mesada, an earlier tax equal to one month’s income, appears to be levied here on the archbishopric for priests who are taking over...
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1734
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Folio contains letters from officials of the royal tobacco monopoly and others associated with the production and marketing of tobacco. The letters generally refer to business affairs but also deal with political matters and the challenges of dealing with the royal monopoly. This letter book was created in the second year of the tenure of Minist...
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1777
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Folio contains lists of cargoes, with an official verification of the destination of those cargoes on the facing page. An alphabetized index of the merchants involved is included.
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1792
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Alcabala taxes were levied on a wide variety of goods, property and enslaved persons. This folio contains the notarial records of several hundred transactions by a large cross- section of the population. The entries are summarised in the margin. A valuable collection of everyday economic activity in colonial Peru.
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1783
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Letter to Stefan Korbonski, Assembly of Captive European Nations, written by Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, Washington, D.C. discussing his upcoming trip to Russia.
Creator:
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Created:
1959-07-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Letter to Vasil Germenji, Chairman, Assembly of Captive European Nations, written by President Richard M. Nixon, Washington, D.C. on safety for refugees.
Creator:
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Created:
1970-12-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Letter written by W. J. Muzik, President of the Czechoslovak Society of America, to Joseph Pavlicek on the capital campaign for the Sokol Minnesota CSPS Hall, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Creator:
Muzik, W. J.
Contributor:
Czechoslovak Society of America
Created:
1945-10-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Carbon copy of a letter to Mykola Switucha, international commissioner of Ukrainian Scouting, from Herbert Michelson, interim secretary of Estonian Boy Scout Association in Exile, on their upcoming meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Creator:
Michelson, Herbert
Created:
1962-08-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Firm known successively as Medici-Beroardi, Medici-Ulivieri, and Medici-Niccolini, during 1726-1742. Includes copy of letter, 1739, September 15, Lisbon, to Domenico Scarlatti, Madrid. Cf. leaf 124 verso. Foliation added in pencil.
Letter to Petr Zenkl, Acting Chairman, Assembly of Captive European Nations, written by John Meagher, Chief of Public Services, Department of State, Washington, D.C. on the election of Czechoslovakia to the International Labor Organization.
Creator:
Meagher, John P.
Contributor:
Department of State (U.S.)
Created:
1957-07-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.