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Rare Books and Manuscripts 64
Reference Library 4

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Boazio, Baptista 4
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388? 2
Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561 2
Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521 2
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616 2
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298 2
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?- 2
Astley, John, d. 1595 1
Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617 1
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484–1566 1
Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de, -1559 1
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592 1
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492 1
Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604 1
Clifford, Christopher 1
Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592 1
Corte, Claudio 1
Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576 1
Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531 1
Gascoigne, George, -1577 1
Hayton, Frère, approximately 1235–approximately 1314 1
Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528– 1
Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580? 1
James I, King of England, 1566–1625 1
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563–1611 1
Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538–1600 1
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century 1
Manwood, John, -1610 1
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637 1
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535 1

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 64
Accessible in the Reference Library 4

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 57
Free to Use 11

Image Available

unavailable 55
available 13

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Books 52
Maps & Atlas (printed) 10
Archives & Manuscripts 5
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 1

Collective Title

Period

16th century 68

17th century 16
18th century 14
19th century 14
20th century 10
15th century 7

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

woodcut 30
engraving 8
armorial bookplates (provenance) 5
map 5
annotations (provenance) 4
exploration literature 4
travel literature 3
atlase 2
early work 2
ink drawing 2
wood engraving 2
architectural drawings (visual works) 1
armorial bindings (binding) 1
bestiarie 1
binders' stamps (binding) 1
block book 1
cancellation (publishing) 1
chromolithograph 1
chronicle 1
correspondence 1
cuttings (partial works) 1
detached leave 1
early map 1
early works to 1800 1
facsimiles (printing) 1
fragments (object portions) 1
gauffered edges (binding) 1
gouache 1
hand-colored illustration 1
herbal 1

Genre

Subject Terms

Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800. 6
Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800. 6
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- Tudors, 1485–1603. 5
Horses -- Early works to 1800. 5
Horses -- Training -- Early works to 1800. 5
America -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. 3
Bigges, Walter, -1586. Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage. 3
Cunliffe, Henry -- Bookplate. 3
Drake, Francis, approximately 1540–1596. 3
Incunabula -- Facsimiles. 3
Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800. 3
West Indies Expedition, 1585–1586 -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. 3
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800. 2
America -- Early accounts to 1600. 2
Atlantic Ocean -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. 2
Bible stories, English. 2
Bits (Bridles) -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800. 2
Church year. 2
Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1808–1891 -- Bookplate. 2
Discoveries in geography -- English -- Early works to 1800. 2
Dressage -- Early works to 1800. 2
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533–1603 -- Portraits. 2
England -- Maps -- Early works to 1800. 2
Heraldry. 2
Hering, C. -- Bookbinder. 2
Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800. 2
Hunting -- Early works to 1800. 2
Hunting -- Great Britain. 2
Illumination of books and manuscripts. 2
Military art and science -- Early works to 1800. 2

Subject Period

16th century 6
17th century 4
15th century 2
14th century 1
18th century 1
19th century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 13
America 6
England 5
Atlantic Ocean 2
Europe 2
Saint Augustine (Fla.) 2
Spain 2
Wales 2
Asia 1
Australia 1
Cartagena (Colombia) 1
China 1
Cilicia 1
England Isle of Wight 1
Florida 1
Guinea 1
Hertfordshire (England) 1
India 1
Iran 1
Isle of Wight (England) 1
Japan 1
London (England) 1
Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina) 1
Manchester (England) 1
Northern Hemisphere 1
Northwest Passage 1
Oxford 1
Portugal 1
Rome 1
Russia 1

Associated People

Bigges, Walter, -1586 3
Drake, Francis, approximately 1540–1596 3
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533–1603 2
Bazan, Álvaro de, marquês de Santa Cruz, 1526–1588 1
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592 1
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492 1
Davis, John, 1550?-1605 1
Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596 1
Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535–1594 1
Gorges, Tristram, ca. 1562–1608 1
James I, King of England, 1566–1625 1
Jenkinson, Anthony, d. 1611 1
Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480–1521 1
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D 1
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626 1
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170 1
Tollemache family 1

Exhibition History

Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 9
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 7
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 3
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989) 2
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 1
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006) 1
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 1
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World (Yale Center for British Art, February 15, 2018-May 27, 2018) 1

Credit Line

22607041020008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607832970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22609020630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22618692010008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22630560700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22631673910008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22666615840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22666741050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22677325730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22695403390008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22699073710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22711752060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22711752960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22716433490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22719375710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22721872280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22721879110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22728841700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22728892990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22728919010008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22728934800008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22728952390008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22728952410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22728960920008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22728968520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22729229250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22731334010008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22731771540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22753119570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22760281840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 68

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Accessible in the Study Room
Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617

The destruction of the Spanish Armada

1588
Accessible in the Study Room
Helmingham herbal and bestiary

circa 1500
Accessible in the Study Room
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637

How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses

1599
Accessible in the Study Room
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-

[Atlas of the counties of England and Wales]

[1590?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Mediciues for horses

[approximately 1565?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615

Thou hast here, gentle reader, a true hydrographical description of so... [Read more]

[1599?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592

Account of the last voyage of Thomas Cavendish

1592
Accessible in the Study Room
A very proper treatise,

1573
Accessible in the Study Room
Ubaldini, Petruccio, 1524?-1600?

A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete inuadinge Englande in... [Read more]

1590
Accessible in the Study Room
Boazio, Baptista

The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes... [Read more]

[1589?]
Accessible in the Study Room
A booke of secrets

1596
Accessible in the Study Room
Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?

The first volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande

1577
Accessible in the Study Room
Gascoigne, George, -1577

The noble arte of venerie or hunting

[1575]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561

The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe

[1570?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Styward, Thomas

The pathwaie to martiall discipline

[1582]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Boazio, Baptista

S. Augustini pars est terrae Florida

[1588?]
Image not yet available

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

[ca. 1590]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538–1600

A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge

1969
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of... [Read more]

[1519?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592

A short treatise of hunting

1897
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Stanbridge, John, 1463–1510

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

anno d[omi]ni MDxxii [1522]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century

The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur

1934
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
The principal nauigations voiages, traffiques and discoueries of the... [Read more]

1598 [-1600]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535

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

MCMXXIX [1929]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the... [Read more]

anno 1599-1600
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521

Stultifera Nauis,

[1570]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Corte, Claudio

The art of riding

1584
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561

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

[not before 1566]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531

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

1523
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves

circa 1450-1598
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?

The boke of Saint Albans,

1881
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D

The metamorphoses of Ovid

1968
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
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]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
The first map of Australia

[1856]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Norden, John, 1548–1625?

Speculi Britaniæ pars

1598
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Newbery, Thomas, fl.1563

A booke in Englysh metre,

1910
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Wyngaerde, Anton van den, d. 1571

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

1881-1882
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-

[Atlas of the counties of England and Wales]

[1579]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492

Vocabulary in French and English

1964
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298

[The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden... [Read more]

15 Feb. 1512
Image not yet available

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

1589
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616

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

circa 1597
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Boazio, Baptista

The true description or draffte of that famous Ile of Wighte

1591
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Manwood, John, -1610

A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest

1598
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Remedies for diseases in horses

1583
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Ortus vocabuloru[m]

1528
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576

The history of trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying... [Read more]

1577
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
The iust reckenyng, or, Accompt of the whole nomber of the yeares

1547
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Clifford, Christopher

The schoole of horsmanship

1585
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
A very proper treatise

1588

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