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Historia naturæ

Joannes Eusebius Nieremberg

1635

Detail of a printed book shows a title page with text in Latin.

Disputatio inauguralis medica

Justus Vesti

1704

Detail of a printed page shows text in Latin.

Christoforo Columbus, de insulis inventis, 1493

1493

Detail of gold JCB stamp on black binding.

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation

Edward Wright

1598

Detail of a printed book shows a decorated title page depicting an illustration of Sor Juana, angels, indigenous people, and text in Spanish and Latin.

Fama, y obras posthumas del Fenix de Mexico

Juana Inés de la Cruz

1700

Americae et Proximar Regionum Orae Descriptio

Giovanni Battista Mazza

1589

Detail from a printed book shows red and black text in Latin, geometrical sketches in the margins, and manuscript notations in the margins and underlining.

Ymago mundi

Pierre d'Ailly

circa 1483

Detail of a woodcut, hand-colored map depicting North and South America. Visible details include Cuba, written as "CVBA", a compass rose, and text in Italian.

La carta uniuersale della terra firma & isole delle Indie occidẽtali…

1534

An image of the map '“Delineatio Omnium Orarum Totius Australis Partis Americae'

Collections Up Close

Jan van Linschoten, “Delineatio Omnium Orarum Totius Australis Partis Americae …” in Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert…, Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz, 1596

November 22, 2021

Detail from the Tovar Codex, showing a bearded Spanish man atop the symbol for house (calli), while holding a book that points to the letters of the Roman alphabet.

Fellow's Talk

Translating Late Medieval Classics into Nahuatl: The Imitatio Christi and How to Think About Latin-Nahuatl translation

Wednesday, September 1 at 1:00pm

Ptolemy's Exquisite Geographia

February 6, 2018