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.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, produced in Venice. Inscriptions in Italian (Venetian dialect) and Portuguese. On the upper border of the chart is a scale of miles which represents 400 miles. For a discussion of this chart see: Cortesão, Armando. The nautical chart of 1424. Coimbra : University of Coimbra, 1954.
Creator:
Pizzigano, Zuane
Created:
1424
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Vellum leaf from an illuminated medieval manuscript. Northern France; Middle XVth Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script. Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis).
Created:
1425 - 1475
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from an illuminated medieval manuscript. France; Middle XVth Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script. Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis).
Created:
1425 - 1475
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from an illuminated medieval manuscript. France; Middle XVth Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script. Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis).
Created:
1425 - 1475
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from an illuminated medieval manuscript. France; Middle XVth Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script. Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis).
Created:
1425 - 1475
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from an illuminated medieval manuscript. France; Middle XVth Century. Latin Text; Lettre de Somme. Writings of St. Jerome (Sanctus Hieronymus, Contra Jovinianum).
Created:
1425 - 1475
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from an illuminated medieval manuscript. France; Middle XVth Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script. Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis).
Created:
1425 - 1475
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Original description: Vellum leaf from a medieval manuscript. France (Limoges); Middle XVth Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script. Missal (Missale Lemovicense Castrense).
Created:
1425 - 1475
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from a medieval manuscript. Italy; Middle XVth Century. Latin Text; Humanistic Script. Livy's History of Rome (T. Livii ab Urbe Condita Libri).
Created:
1425 - 1475
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Bible. Manuscripts, Latin, Old Testament. Ecclesiasticus. Manuscript leaf on vellum. In a book hand closely resembling the type of the Gutenberg Bible. Rubricated initials. Germany, ca. 1450. 48.5 x 35 cm. Chapter 13, verse one to chapter 16, verse 22.
Created:
1425 - 1475
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Holograph signed: Michiel Moro [di?] Marin. Written in Italian; addressed to Venice by a Venetian firm's agent in London. Accompanied by an English translation (translator unknown), and a commentary by Lucio Marson, dated 1973 March 16, Rutherford, N.J. (5 leaves of typescript).
Creator:
Moro, Michiel
Contributor:
Dolpfin, Laurenzius
Created:
1444
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Vellum leaf from a medieval manuscript. Italy; Late XVth Century. Latin Text; Humanistic Book Hand. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Sentences (Super Primo Libro Sententiarum).
Created:
1450 - 1499
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from a medieval manuscript. France; Late XVth Century. Latin Text; Lettre Bâtarde. Dialogues of Gregory the Great (S. Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi).
Created:
1450 - 1499
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from a medieval manuscript. Germany (Würzburg); Late XVth Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script, Gothic Notation. Psalter (Psalterium).
Created:
1450 - 1499
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from a medieval manuscript. The Netherlands; Late XVth Century. Latin Text; Bold Angular Gothic Script. Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis).
Created:
1450 - 1499
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from an illuminated medieval manuscript. Northern France; Late XVth Century. Latin Text; Gothic Script. Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis).
Created:
1450 - 1499
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from an illuminated medieval manuscript. The Netherlands; Late XVth Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script. Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis).
Created:
1450 - 1499
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Vellum leaf from an illuminated medieval manuscript. The Netherlands; Late XVth Century. Latin Text; Lettre de Forme. Book of Hours (Horæ Beatæ Mariæ Virginis).
Created:
1450 - 1499
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Manuscript. Illuminated initial ‘U’ portraying John the Baptist, painted on vellum in colors on a gold ground (restored), a fragment from an antiphoner. Milanese, late 15th century.
Created:
1450 - 1499
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Bible. Manuscripts, Latin. Old Testament. Daniel. Manuscript leaf on vellum. German. Blue initials. Ca. 1450. 48.5 x.35 cm. Chapter six, verse 21 to chapter eight, verse 14.
Created:
1450?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
This fragment of an unknown planisphere is of special interest for its portrayal of Africa. Area shown extends from the British and Canary Islands on the west to the Red and Black Seas on the east.
Created:
1450
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Consists of two paper leaves printed on both sides, from the original edition of the 42-line Gutenberg Bible printed in Mainz, ca. 1454-1455. Comprises leaves 153 and 154 of volume 2, containing text from the minor prophets, beginning with the final nine lines of Micah, through Naum (Nahum) and Abacuc (Habakkuk), and the first ten lines of Zepha...
Created:
1454 - 1455
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Thomas Aquinas. Leaf from Thomas Aquinas’ commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Latin, from Italy, about 1470. Handwriting of the "Humanist" period.
Created:
1470?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Letter, 1479 July 12; Marco Bembo, Candia to Laurentio Bembo, Venice. The Bembos were a Venetian merchant family, and this correspondence reflects their trading in wine, cloth, hemp, and other commodities in the eastern Mediterranean.
Creator:
Bembo, Marco
Contributor:
Bembo, Laurentio
Created:
1479
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
