Period

16th Century

Featured Items

Detail of a frontispiece shows four animals grouped between two pillars. In the background, castles sit on either side of a harbor where ships wait. Text in Latin.

Biblia Sacra Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, & Latine Philippi II

1573
Detail of a printed book shows a colored illustrated dragons on a circular diagram with text in Latin.

Astronomicum cæsareum

Peter Apian
1540
Detail of a printed book shows a circular illustration and text in Spanish.

Suma de geographia...

Martin Fernandez de Enciso
1546
Detail of a printed book shows full-page illustrations of plants. Text in Latin also visible.

Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos

Garcia de Orta
1567
Printed text shows a circular diagram below text in Latin.

Breves in sphaeram meditatiunculae

Bartholomaeus Mercator
1563
Detail of a colored, engraved map shows "Florida," "Virginia," and partial view of frontispiece with text in English.

The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and Barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St. Iago, Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines

Baptista Boazio
1589
Detail of Mundus Novus' title page which depicts two monkeys sitting by a tree, framed by plants and text in Latin.

Mundus novus

Amerigo Vespucci
1503
Detail from a printed texts shows a full-page illustration of Fort Caroline. Details include topography, trees, and text in French.

Plan of Fort Caroline

1565

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Lecture

Historia del libro en lenguas originarias de América

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October 5
Native Americans of present-day Mexico dance around two drummers

Picturing the Past: Indigenous Expressions in Colonial Mexico

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engraved map of the island of Hispaniola with present-day Haiti and Santo Domingo, including sea monsters, ships, and a compass
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L'isole piu famose del mondo…, 1572

February 25
JCB Fellow Juan Cobo Betancourt views an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library
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Juan Cobo Betancourt, Donald L. Saunders Fellow

November 25
Plan of the fort of the French in Guanabara Bay
Fellow's Talk

How French Poems Become English

America Meredith (Cherokee), London Calling 1762 (2012)
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Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

black and white image of the virgen
Fellow's Talk

Guadalupe: Text, Context, and the Virgilian Tradition

See Also

Colonial Law

Greek