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A booke of secrets

(1596)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[40] p. 18 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22666741050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Helmingham herbal and bestiary

(circa 1500)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 v. ([20] leaves, with 1 blank leaf) : ill. ; 45 x 32 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22947723160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Marchi, Francesco de, 1504–1577

Della architettura militare

(mid-16th century)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 volume : 85 drawings, one print ; 43 cm + 8 items
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22728276550008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Kölderer, Jörg, d. 1540

Maximiliani König Zeughauss

(between 1504 and 1508)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 volume (63 drawings on 68 pages) : pen and ink and watercolor ; 43 x 29 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22825828840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Lily, George, active 1528–1559

Britanniae insulae quae nunc Angliae et Scotiae regna continet cum Hibernia... [Read more]

(MDXLVI [1546])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 map on 2 sheets ; 51.8 x 72.2 cm, on sheet 56.2 x 76.3 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22931377570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439–1502

Trattato di architectura civile e militare

(not after 1521)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 volume (178 pages) : illustrations ; 44 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22636055700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592

Account of the last voyage of Thomas Cavendish

(1592)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 v. (38 leaves) ; 20 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22699073710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470–1519

Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 =

(1903)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 maps on 24 sheets ; 127 x 230 cm., sheets 44 x 62 cm. or smaller and 122 x 227 cm., sheets 45 x 62 cm. or smaller, in portfolio 64 x 54 cm, 1 volume ([8], 55 pages) ; 53 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22719851850008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598

Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und... [Read more]

(1590[-1630])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions14 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 36 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22937718310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604

A sparke of frendship and warme goodwill, that shewes the effect of trve... [Read more]

(1978)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[36] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
• CollectionReference Library
• Credit line

Nouus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum

(1555)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[52], 1-99, 200-677, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 34 cm. (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445–1517

Diuina proportione

(anno redemptionis nostre MDVIIII Klen. Iunii [1509 June 1])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[6], 33, [1], 27 [i.e. 26], [27], LXI [i.e. LIX], [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22957970530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Barleti, Marin, approximately 1460–1512 or 1513

Scanderbeg

(MDLXXVII [1577])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[5], 156, [4] leaves : illustrations ; 33 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22875811530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-

Southamtoniae comitatus (preter insulas Vectis, Jersey et Garnsey... [Read more]

([1575])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 map : engraving ; 38 x 42 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22686855570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Erschröckliche Zeytung, von zweyen Mödern, mit Namen Martin Farkas, unnd... [Read more]

([1570])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[8] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Maggi, Girolamo, -1572

Della fortificatione delle citta

(MDLXXXIII [1583])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], 136 [i.e. 138] leaves : illustrations, maps, plans ; 37 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22739407540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Corte, Claudio

The art of riding

(1584)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[12], 112 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22729229250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Bonifacio, Natale, 1538–1592

Pianta del sito della piazza fatta per alzare la guglia, e della situatione di... [Read more]

([1586])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 print : engraving ; 52 x 37 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22653478920008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ziegler, Jacob, 1480–1549

Quae intus continentur.

(MDXXXII. [1532])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionscvii, ciii-cx, [18] leaves : ill., maps diagrams ; 29 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22699888880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

In hoc opere haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei a plurimis... [Read more]

(anno Virginei partus 1508)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 atlas ([284] pages, [68] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 34 maps ; 43 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22699224810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Bonifacio, Natale, 1538–1592

Disegno nel quale si rappresentano le cerimone fatte d'ordinedi N. Sre.... [Read more]

(MDLXXXVII [1587])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 print : engraving ; 52 x 38 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22653478920008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521

Stultifera Nauis,

([1570])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[12], 259, [68] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves

(circa 1450-1598)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionsapproximately 2400 leaves : illustrations
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22918559840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Vegetius Renatus, Flavius

FlauI VegetI Ren. v. inl. De re militari libri quatuor

(M.D.LXXXV [1585])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[12], 248, [4], 249-276, [16], 376, [2] p., pp. 399-419, [37] p. : ill. fold. table, port. ; 21 cm. (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22762749600008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Grisone, Federico

Ordini di caualcare, et modi di conoscere le nature de caualli, eme[n]dar i vitij... [Read more]

(MDLXI [1561])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions110, [26] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 16 cm. (8vo)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22634121490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563–1611

Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West... [Read more]

([1598])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[10], 197, [4], 198-259 [i.e. 295], [3], 307-462 p., [23] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22695403390008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484–1531

A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred... [Read more]

(1550)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[208] p. ; 14 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565

Precetti della militia moderna, tanto per mare, quanto per terra

(1568)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], 59, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank) : ill., diagrams ; 21 cm. (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22945885900008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Fronsperger, Leonhardt, 1520–1575

Kriegssbuch

(1573)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], CCCLXII, [8] leaves, [18] leaves of plates: illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711752780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Molitor, Ulrich, active 1470–1501

De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus

([approximately 1500])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[2], tercium-xxij leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22662711940008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Sachs, Hans, 1494–1576

Das vntrew Spiel

([ca. 1553])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[8] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation,... [Read more]

(1589)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[16], 242, [2], 243-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm. (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22618692010008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616

Translation of a report by Álvaro de Bazan, marquês de Santa Cruz, on the... [Read more]

(circa 1597)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 sheet : pen and black ink ; 29 x 37 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22760281840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Sachs, Hans, 1494–1576

The book of trades (Ständebuch)

([1973])

• Materials & Techniques
• DimensionsL, 127 p. illus. 22 cm.
• CollectionReference Library
• Credit line

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538–1600

Trattato dell'arte della pittvra, scoltvra, et architettvra,

(1585)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions20 p.l., 700 [i.e. 698] p., [2] p. 23 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?

English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans

(1975)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionslxix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22925241540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

López, Juan, 1440–1496

De libertate ecclesiastica

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions70, [2] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22756444520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580

Selections from Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura

(second half of the 15th century)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 volume ; 21 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22979837090008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Hayton, Frère, approximately 1235–approximately 1314

Here begynneth a lytell cronycle

([approximately 1520?])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[2], xliiii, [1] leaf ; 25 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22630560700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Lafréry, Antoine, 1512–1577

Speculum romanae magnificentiae

([1546-1590])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions125 prints in 1 volume : engraving ; 51 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22898121020008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298

[Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in... [Read more]

(16 Feb. 1503 [i.e. 1504])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions296 leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Maggi, Girolamo, -1572

Della fortificatione delle città

(MDLXIIII [1564])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], 139, [1] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 36 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Reissner, Adam, 1500–1572

Historia Herrn Georgen Vnnd Herrn Casparn von Frundsberg

(MDLXVIII [1568])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], 180, 24, [8] leaves : illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711752810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Maximilian, of Transylvania, active 1522

Il viaggio fatto da gli Spagniuoli a torno a'l mondo

(MDXXXVI [1536])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[52] leaves ; 19 cm. (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22710611250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521–1589

Descrittione di M. Lodovico Gvicciardini patritio fiorentino, di tvtti i Paesi... [Read more]

(1581)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[24], 558, [18] pages : illustrations (maps, portrait, coats of arms) ; 33 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22650563560008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580

La venerie et fauconnerie

(M.D.LXXXV [1585])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], 125, [9], 127, [5] leaves : ill. (incl. music) ; 22 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22812561960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Münzer, Thomas, approximately 1490–1525

Eyn schrecklicht Geschicht vnd Gericht Gottes

(1525])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[12] p. ; 19 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Stanbridge, John, 1463–1510

Accidentia ex Sta[n]brigiana editione nuper recognita et... [Read more]

(anno d[omi]ni MDxxii [1522])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[32] pages ; 18 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711752960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548

Der furnembsten, notwendigsten, der gantzen Architectur angehörigen... [Read more]

(Anno 1547)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[6], XLII, LII, XLVII, [1], LII, XLVII, [5], XLVII, [1], IX, [4], XIX, XII leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22764713490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 1535–1606

Speculum nauticum super nauigatione maris occidentalis confectum

(MDXCI [1591])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 atlas ([6], 36, [192] pages) : 47 maps ; 44 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22805233560008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560

Grammaticae Whitintonianae liber secundus de nominum declinatione

(anno virginei partus, vicesimo tertio, supra sesquimillesimum, Mense Decembri [1523])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[28] pages ; 20 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22941638980008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474–1559

De arte supputandi libri quattuor Cutheberti Tonstalli

(Anno Verbi incarnati, MDXXII, pridie idus Octobris [1522 October 14])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[408] pages ; 24 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22927073580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592

A short treatise of hunting

(1897)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22806146160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cum tabulis et universali... [Read more]

(Anno Domini. M.D.XI. die. xx. mensis Martii. [March 22, 1511])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 atlas ([62] leaves, [28] double leaves of plates) : ill., maps ; 43 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22822947470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

A mapp of the north part from the equinoctial, with the auncient seates of... [Read more]

([ca. 1590])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 map ; 42 cm in diameter, on sheet 42 x 55 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711752060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century

The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur

(1934)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22731334010008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the... [Read more]

(1598 [-1600])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions3 v., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : map. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22931422030008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561

The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe

([1570?])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22964593640008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Goltzius, Hubert, 1526–1583

Le vive imagini di tvtti qvasi gl'imperatori,

(1557)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[350] p. col. ill. 34 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521

Stultifera nauis

(1509 (14 Dec.)])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], CCLXXIIII [i.e. CCLXXIX] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22728952390008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535–1612

Emanuels van Meteren historie der Neder-landscher ende haerder na-buren... [Read more]

(1614)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[10], 302, 304-671, [15] leaves : ill., map, ports. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Fronsperger, Leonhardt, 1520–1575

Von Kayserlichem Kriegssrechten Malefitz vnd Schuldhändlen... [Read more]

(MDLXVI [1566])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], CCLVI [i.e. 257], [6] leaves, [12] leaves of folded plates ; illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711752810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Russell, John, -1494

Propositio Johannis Russell

(1909)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions35, [8] p. : facsim. ; 24 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Commynes, Philippe de, approximately 1447–1511

Historia

(MDLXVI [1566])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[8], 263, [21] pages ; 33 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711752810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561

A newe booke containing the arte of ryding, and breaking greate... [Read more]

([not before 1566])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[356] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22907596630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Thevet, André, 1502–1590

La cosmographie vniverselle

(1575)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 v. : ill., maps ; 38 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528–

The gardeners labyrinth

(1982)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions180 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
• CollectionReference Library
• Credit line

Boazio, Baptista

The true description or draffte of that famous Ile of Wighte

(1591)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 map : engraving ; 24 x 33 cm, on sheet 29 x 43 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22719375710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Caroso, Fabritio

Il ballarino di M. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta

(MDLXXXI [1581])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[8], 16; 184, [4] leaves : ill., port., music ; 25 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22710617290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

A very proper treatise

(1588)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions11, [3] p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Thucydides

Thoukudidou tou Olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto =

(anno MDLXIIII [1564])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[16], 297, [3], 216, [8] p. ; 36 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22723079050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-

[Atlas of the counties of England and Wales]

([1579])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 atlas ([1] leaf, [71] leaves of plates) : 35 maps, port. ; 42 cm. (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22607041020008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557

Primo volume, & terza editione delle nauigationi et viaggi

(l'anno MDLXIII [1563])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], 34, 162, 162-394 leaves, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22784619260008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Catholic Church. Pope (1513–1521 : Leo X)

Frater Philippus Mulart decretorum doctor sacri et apostolici hospitalis... [Read more]

([1519])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 sheet ([1] page) ; 169 x 253 mm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22713863580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Newbery, Thomas, fl.1563

A booke in Englysh metre,

(1910)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionsxxxviii p. facsim. ([16] p. illus.) 24 cm.
• CollectionReference Library
• Credit line

Leslie, John, 1527–1596

De origine, moribus, et rebua gestis Scotorum libri decem

(1578)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[40], 588, [32] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : coat of arms, port., geneal. tables, maps ; 24 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452–1498

Libro di Frate Hieronymo da Ferrare ...

(1516)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions151 p. ; 21 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Rugen, Jörg, active 15th century

Thurnier Buch

(MDLXVI [1566])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[6], CCXLIII, [3] leaves, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, coats of arms ; 33 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711752840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ortelius, Abraham, 1527–1598

Abrahami Ortelii Antverpiani Synonymia geographica, sive Populorum, regionum,... [Read more]

(MDLXXVIII [1578])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[8], 417, [3] pages ; 23 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22631657110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557

Terzo volume delle nauigationi et viaggi

(l'anno MDLXV [1565])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[6], 34, 453, 455-456 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22890570710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Wyngaerde, Anton van den, d. 1571

Van den Wyngaerde's View of London (circa 1550)

(1881-1882)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 portfolio (7 plates) : all ill. ; 53 x 295 cm, on 7 sheets 80 x 59 cm, in cover 79 x 58 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Mercator, Gerhard, 1512–1594

Atlas siue Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et... [Read more]

(anno 1595)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 atlas ([14], 32, [16] pages, [254] leaves) : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 43 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22970107830008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Fronsperger, Leonhardt, 1520–1575

Kriegssbuch

(1573)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[6], CXII, CXV-CCXXVII, [7] leaves, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22711752780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Here endeth this presente Cronycle of Englande with the fruyte of tymes,... [Read more]

(in the yere of oure lorde god MCCCCC and xx [1520])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[6], Clxiii, [23] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm (fol.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22839680340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D

The metamorphoses of Ovid

(1968)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 v. ; 31 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22728841700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535

A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique... [Read more]

(MCMXXIX [1929])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22631673910008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Geminus, Thomas, -1562

Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio aere exarata

(anno Domini, 1545, mense Octobri)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[90] pages, [41] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 41 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22686295960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Claudii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis libri octo

(Anno a Christi natiuitate MDXXV, tertio Kal[ends] Apriles [30 March 1525])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 atlas (82 leaves, [96] pages, [98] leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 41 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22860141480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Styward, Thomas

The pathwaie to martiall discipline

([1582])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[2], 166, [2] pages ; [4], 20 leaves, [8] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22728968520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Intrationu[m] excellentissimus liber

(anno n[ost]re redemptionis, MCCCCCx, die vero vltima mensis Februarii [1510 February 28])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[10], l, lii-liij, lv-clxxxv, [1] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22850179990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511–1574

Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori

(1568)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions3 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22870367290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Vegetius Renatus, Flavius

Vegecivs De re miltari

([1511 or 1512?])

• Materials & Techniques
• DimensionsCLXXXXV pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22966439900008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Fl. Vegetii Renati viri illustris De re militari libri quatuor

(Anno M.D.XXXII. [1532] decimo Kalendas Septembres)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[8], 279, [1] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22966439110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Itinerarium prouinciarum omniu[m] Antonini Augusti

([1512])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[8], 92, [60] leaves ; 13 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560

Syntaxis

(anno .xx. supra sesquimillesimu[m] Ibib[us] [sic] Marcij [15 March 1520, i.e. 1521])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[68] pages ; 19 cm (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22846897070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531

Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and... [Read more]

(1523)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22728892990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Franck, Sebastian, 1499–1542

Chronica, tytboeck en gheschiet bibel

(1595)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionslxxxi, [3], lxxxiii, [3], clv, [5], cxxxiiii, [4] leaves ; 34 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233–approximately 1320

De agricultura vulgare

(die nono mẽsis Iulii anno dñi M.D.XIX [9 July 1519])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions235 (i.e. 234), [6] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Coornhert, D. V. (Dirk Volkertszoon), 1522–1590

Divi Caroli V. imp. opt. max. victoriae, ex multis praecipuae ...

(1556)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions12 prints : engraving with etching ; each approximately 22 x 24 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22660289620008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Boazio, Baptista

S. Augustini pars est terrae Florida

([1588?])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 map ; 40.1 x 54.2 cm., on sheet 41.8 x 56.1cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22928587570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection