Lecture notes taken by Claude Perreault in the courses given by Jacques Fontaine at Aix-en-Provence in 1608. Calf binding with Claudius in a floral medallion on the front panel and Perrault on the back panel.
Creator:
Perreault, Clause
Contributor:
Fontaine, Jacques, - 1621
Created:
1608
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
The work by Alessandro Achillini is edited by his brother Giovanni Filoteo. Leaves xxvii and xli incorrectly numbered xxvi and xl, respectively, duplicating the preceding leaf numbers. Signatures: a4, A-G8, H4 (last leaf blank)
Creator:
de Ketham, Joannes, active 15th century; Achillini, Alessandro, 1463-1512; Achillini, Giovanni Filoteo, 1466-1538; Arrivabene, Andrea, active 16th century; Arrivabene, Antonio Francesco, active 16th century; da Tossignano, Pietro, -1401; Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī, Abū Bakr, 865?-925?; dei Luzzi, Mondino, -1326
Created:
1522
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Title page with woodcut illustration from Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris De humani corporis fabrica libri septem ...
Creator:
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564 (author); Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568 (printer); van Calcar, Jan Stephan, 1499-1546? (illustrator)
Created:
1543
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Cartographic Details: Scale 1:12,000,000 (W 15--E 55/N 55--N 25). Shows the Roman Empire, A.D. 1-300 and the development of the Roman Empire, B.C. 218-A.D. 100. Pub. date cf. Mapping the classical world / Richard J.A. Talbert in Journal of Roman archaeology, volume 5 (1992). In lower right corner of map: J.G. Bartholomew. Map pasted in red cloth...
Creator:
Grundy, George Beardoe, 1861-1948; M üller, Chrales (Cartographer); Bartholomew, John George, 1860-1920
Created:
1903
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Manuscript on vellum, Latin, approximately 1270; red and black. The Canones of Arzachel are preceded by a 2 leaf summary (folio 7-8) which internal evidence assigns to approximately 1407 or 8. See folio 112 for evidence. Binder's title on case: Toledo astronomical tables.
Creator:
Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187; Arzachel, active 1080; William, of Marseilles, active 1231
Created:
1270
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.
Cartographic Details: Scale not given. (E 79°22'00"--E 82°04'00"/N 10°02'00"--N 5°43'00") Relief shown pictorially. Likely from Cosmographiae Universalis by Sebastian M ünster. Latin text and page number on verso: Tapro-bana... 22.
Creator:
Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
Created:
1572
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Map is known as the "Peutinger table", it represents the imperial roads and posts throughout the Roman Empire at about 250 A.D. with editions to ca. 500 A.D. 8 maps on 4 sheets.
Contributor:
Welser, Marcus, 1558-1614
Created:
1650?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Large woodcut colored anatomical figures of a man and a skeleton; the man having 3 moveable flaps. With: Von des Menschen Cörpers Antomey, ein kurtzer, aber vast nützer Ausszug / A. Vasalius. Basel : Johann Herpst, 1543.
Creator:
Schönbrun, Bartholomaeus
Created:
1590?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Cartographic Details: Scale not given. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Ptolemy's Geographia universalis, 1540 edition, revised & edition by Sebastian M ünster. Latin text and page no. on verso: Asiae X. tabula ... 26. This map summarizes Ptolemaic cartography of India and part of Bangladesh. It was the tenth in a sequence of 12 maps of Asi...
Creator:
M ünster, Sebastian, 1489-1552; Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Created:
1540
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Contains the nine major changes in the merchant code of Venice made after 1477, the date of the first edition. These changes concern cargo regulations, sentences upon sailors, payment of customs dues, etc.
Creator:
Venice (Republic : To 1797)
Contributor:
Franciscus Gilbertus, editor and translator
Created:
1492
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.
Relief shown pictorially. Inset map of Fish Bay, Disko Island and coast of Greenland. The fourth state of a map originally published by Frederik de Wit in 1675. From: Atlas van zeevaart en koophandel door de geheele weereldt ... / ... door den Heer Louis Renard ... Te Amsterdam : by Reinier en Iosua Ottens, 1745.
Creator:
Ottens, Reinier, 1698-1750
Contributor:
Ottens, Josua, 1704-1765; de Wit, Frederik; Renard, Louis, b. ca. 1678
Created:
1745
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map 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.
Includes two inset maps of the north and south poles. From: Johann David Kohler's Schul- und Reisen-Atlas aller zu Erlernung der alten ... Nurnberg, 1719.
Creator:
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Contributor:
Weigel, Christoph, 1654-1725; Kohler, Johann David, 1684-1755
Created:
1719
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
On verso: text in Latin. In :"Ander Theil Novi Atlantis / Wilhelm und Johann Blaeu", Amsterdami : apud Guiljelmum et Johannem Blaeu, 1635 d'apreès C. Koeman : Atlantes Neerlandici, volume 1, page 96.
Creator:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
Created:
1634
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:4,500,000?. Date from previously assigned call number; cataloger unable to confirm original source. Relief shown pictorially."75"--manuscript, upper right.
Creator:
Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756
Created:
1690?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.