Period

16th Century

Featured Items

Detail of a colored manuscript atlas shows a coastal region and labels in Latin. Other details include drawings of castles and mountains.

[Portolan atlas] / Vesconte de Maiolo ciuis Janue conposuy

Vesconte Maggiolo

1511

Detail from a printed book shows text in Spanish reading "Los aguacates es uno fruta en las Indias muy preciada, y medicinal."

Secretos de chirurgia

Pedro Arias de Benavides

1567

Detail of a printed book shows an illustration of a woman with long hair, elaborate drawings on her body, and holding a spear.

A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.

Thomas Harriot

1590

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

Instructio[n], y memoria, de las relaciones que se han de hazer, para la descripcion de las Indias

Juan López de Velasco

1577

Detail of brown book binding shows the embossed details.

La istoria de las Indias. y Conquista de Mexico

López de Gómara

1552

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

Suma de geographia...

Martin Fernandez de Enciso

1546

Detail of a hand colored manuscript map shows flags and place names along a coastal region.

[Early representation of Newfoundland, Lower California, the Amazon, and the Ladrones]

António Pereira

circa 1546

Lecture

Historia del libro en lenguas originarias de América

Tuesday, October 27 at 2:00pm

Image of Guaxtepec (relaciones geograficas)

Digital Item-of-the-Month

New Digital Item-of-the-Month series begins this week

October 5

Native Americans of present-day Mexico dance around two drummers

Picturing the Past: Indigenous Expressions in Colonial Mexico

Spring 2020

engraved map of the island of Hispaniola with present-day Haiti and Santo Domingo, including sea monsters, ships, and a compass

Map of the Month

L'isole piu famose del mondo…, 1572

February 25

JCB Fellow Juan Cobo Betancourt views an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library

Meet a JCB Fellow

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

Wednesday, February 13 at 4:00pm

America Meredith (Cherokee), London Calling 1762 (2012)