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16th Century
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Featured Items
Aqui comiença vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana,
Alonso de Molina
1555
Battista Agnese atlas
Battista Agnese
1543-1545
Orbis Typus Vniversalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem
1513
Biblia Sacra Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, & Latine Philippi II
1573
[Portolan atlas] / Vesconte de Maiolo ciuis Janue conposuy
Vesconte Maggiolo
1511
Secretos de chirurgia
Pedro Arias de Benavides
1567
Breves in sphaeram meditatiunculae
Bartholomaeus Mercator
1563
La carta uniuersale della terra firma & isole delle Indie occidẽtali…
1534
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Early Mexican Imprints at the JCB
José Montelongo,
January 15, 2023
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Jan van Linschoten, “Delineatio Omnium Orarum Totius Australis Partis Americae …” in Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert…, Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz, 1596
November 22, 2021
Fellow's Talk
"Brute animals" and "rational creatures": Defining humanity in the Indigenous-language vocabularies and pedagogies of New Spain
Wednesday, July 28 at 1:00pm
Fellow's Talk
Earthquakes and Timekeeping Practices in New England, 1600-1800
Wednesday, August 25 at 1:00pm
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
Fellow's Talk
Comparative Colonialisms? Palermo and the Americas at the JCB
Wednesday, August 4 at 1:00pm
Fellow's Talk
From South to North America: A New Perspective on Floridian Studies
Wednesday, July 7 at 1:00pm
Fellow's Talk
The Strait of Magellan and the Construction of a Global habitability. Geopolitics and cosmography in the 16th century [in Spanish]
Wednesday, June 30 at 1:00pm
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See Also
19th Century
Indigenous History