Historical Manuscripts and Charts

A collection of intricate historical manuscripts featuring genealogical tables, nautical charts, and decorative pages from various centuries showcasing detailed artistry and rich colors.

Aztec calendar by unknown artist, watercolor on parchment, 1792, Private Collection

Netherlands, Chevalier, Nicolas, Medal of the University of Franeker, with the names of the professors and the coat of arms of the university, verso - manuscript, print, prints, 68, diameter 70 mm, Work conception, 1661-06-01 - 1720, after a design by, 1685 - 1720, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), print maker, printmaker

Cartography, 13th century. Mappa Mundi, Medieval map, London about 1265. Ink and colors on parchment. The map's diameter is 9 cm.

Karol Bołsunowski's exlibris (small version) unknown

CRONICAS DE LAS CRUZADAS-GODOFREDO DE BOUILLON-FIN CRONICA DE JERUSALEN-1ªCRUZADA- MANUSCRITO DEL SIGLO XV. Author: DREUX JEAN. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. WIEN. AUSTRIA. BOUILLON GODOFREDO DE. JERUSALEN REY DE.

Perpetual Calendar (IT)

LIBRO DE LOS GOBERNADORES Y ALCALDES DE MEXICO - CODICE OSUNA - SIGLO XVI. Location: SENADO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Página del manuscrito 'Descendentia dominorum regum Sicilie', ca. 1437. Author: CRESPI, LLEONARD (SIGLO XV).

Ornamented Monogram VD. Date/Period: First quarter of 11th century. Folio. Tempera colors, gold, silver, and ink on parchment. Height: 232 mm (9.13 in); Width: 179 mm (7.04 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

Musical notation. First page of Notkers Easter Sequence, Laudes Salvatori showing Neums notation for Gregorian chant, a system of writing music which was superseded by Staff notation. Notker (c840-912) Benedictine monk, poet and musician at the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland. 10th century manuscript.

The Leningrad Codex (or Codex Leningradensis) is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew. dated AD 1008

FACSIMIL-PAGINA DE CODICE TRO-CORTESIANO-CULT MAYA-HOMBRES Y DIOSES - S XIII AL XV. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Print (Italy)

BIBLIA DE SAN LUIS - PARABOLA DE LAS VIRGENES - SIGLO XIII. Location: CATEDRAL-BIBLIOTECA. Toledo. SPAIN.

"Design for a Cup to Serve Wine at Drinking Parties", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari dated A.H. 715/A.D. 1315 Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari This page comes from a treatise on fantastic devices invented by the author al-Jazari. This goblet is described in the text as 'arbitrating' at drinking parties: the bird atop the lid whistles until the goblet is full of wine, and then continues to whistle until the chosen guest empties it. While illustrated manuscripts were growing increasingly popular in the fourteenth century, this folio is a rare survival from Syria, where few such manuscripts are known from this date.. "Design for a Cup to Serve Wine at Drinking Parties", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari 451301

PERGAMINO SOBRE FUNDACION DE LA SOCIEDAD COLOMBINA ONUBENSE. Author: FRANCO DOMINGO. Location: MONASTERIO DE LA RABIDA. PALOS DE LA FRONTERA. Huelva. SPAIN.

BIBLIA-FOL 7. Location: UNIVERSIDAD BIBLIOTECA. Barcelona. SPAIN.

CODE OF METZ - 9th CENTURY- ASTRONOMICAL CALENDAR - CAROLINGIA WRITING. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

This Chonhado (map of all under heaven), was produced in Korea in the 18th century. The map comes out of the Buddhist tradition of China with data possibly 2000 years old, although the earliest-known surviving examples date from the sixteenth century. From that time, the style gained popularity in Korea, and by the end of the nineteenth century numerous copies existed. The structure of the map is simple. A main continent, containing China, Korea, and a number of historically known countries, occupies the center of the circular map, surrounded by an enclosing sea ring, which is itself surrounded by an outerring of land.

'Fragment of the Codex Tro-cortesiano (Codex de Madrid) II'. Museum: MUSEO DE AMERICA, MADRID, SPAIN.

Pietro Russo / Carta naútica del mediterráneo, 1508. Museu Marítim de Barcelona.

Introductory summary overview map from al-Idrisis 1154 world atlas. Note that south is at the top of the map.

MINIATURA DEL MANUSCRITO DE POBLET - ALFONSO II DE ARAGON EL CASTO Y I BARCELONA (1157-1196). Location: REAL MONASTERIO DE SANTA MARIA DE POBLET-BIBLIOTEC. Vimbodí. TARRAGONA. SPAIN.

Brackets for Bustos, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I 1754 Thomas Chippendale British Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate CXXXII in the 1754 and 1755 editions, but not reprinted in the 1762 edition.. Brackets for Bustos, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I 390556

1800 Chinese maps of Ming Empire of China (left) and the World (right) . Echoing China's self-imposed isolation, the world map shows China in the center surrounded by undifferentiated representations of the rest of the world.

FACSIMIL - PAGINA DE CODICE TRO-CORTESIANO O DE MADRID - CODICE MAYA HECHO ENTRE EL SIGLO XIII Y XV - DIOSES Y HOMBRES. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

The Roman wheel of adventure, 1705, 1706 - 1707 print The Roman wheel of adventure, 1705. Theodorus de Cock lying on the ground above him sees a wheel of adventure with Peter Codde, the Jesuit, the Pope, the Jansenist and others. Under the verse, the death of the Vicar Gerardus Potcamp in Leiden is made on December 16, 1705. Page no. 10 In the series of 13 magazines with cartoons on the Jesuits entitled Roma Pertubata, 1707. Part of the printed work published under the collection title The Lust-Hof of Momus with the bundled series of cartoons during the years 1701-1713 of the Spanish Succession War. Amsterdam paper etching Turn of Fate, Wheel of Fortune

Guidonian hand with somization syllables by Anonymous / University of California, Berkeley, Music Library/ 16th century/ Italy, School of Mantua/ Watercolour on parchment/ Medieval art/ 30,8x22,4/ Music, Dance

The Hereford Mappa Mundi of 1280.

Emilia-Romagna Forli Cesena Biblioteca Comunale10. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 .. Medieval: Manuscripts: 1) Laurentius Rusius: "De cura equorum" (15th century) BCM S.XXVI.2 2) Paolo Veneto: "History of the Origins of the World through Henry VII" (14th century) BCM S.XI.5 3) S. Isidorus: "Etymologies" (late 8th-early 9th centuries) BCM S.XXI.5 4) Gospel Book (Evangeliario), Greek (10th century) BCM D.XXVII.4 5) Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographies, Hebrew (1348) BCM S.XXIX.1 6) "Somnium Scipionis", misc. (14th-15th centuries) BCM S.XII.6 7) Boethius: "De Consolatione Philosophie" (14th century) BCM D.XIV.1 8) Justinian: "Institutiones" (14th century) BCM S.IV.I 9) Bible (Old and New Testaments) (13th-14th centuries) BCM D.V.2 10) Giabir Ibn Afla "Almagestus" (De Astronomia) (13th and 15th centuries) BCM S.XXVII.2. Post-medieval: Manuscripts: 1) St. Augustine: "Enarrationes in Psalmos" (1452) BCM D.III.2 2) Herodotus: Histories (15th century) BCM S.X1V.1 3) St. Augustine: "De Civitate Dei"

MISAL CAR CISNEROS LETRA F. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Papyrus fragment from chapter 110 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. 'Djedhor working in the fields of the Afterlife'. Late Period, 664-332 BC. Depicts the Field of Offerings in which the deceased must work for nourishment.

Italy, The Roman colony Julia Augusta Taurinorum (Turin), miniature from the manuscript Palatinus 1564

CODEX III.7-COMMENTS FROM GALENO TO HIPOCRATES-FOL 9R-MONOS.16th CENTURY. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

'Fragment of the Codex Tro-cortesiano (Codex de Madrid) III'. Museum: MUSEO DE AMERICA, MADRID, SPAIN.

ANTIFONARIO DE LEON - MANUSCRITO MOZARABE - SIGLO XI - DEGOLLACION DE SAN JUAN BAUTISTA. Location: CATEDRAL-ARCHIVO. LEON. SPAIN.

Cronica Cronicarum (...), Blad 5 verso, 1521 print Leaf 5 Verso from a world chronicle. Text in book pressure in French with decorated initials. At the top left the title: Le Quart Aage. On the right in the middle a round representation of the sleeping Isaï. A tree (tree from Jesse) grows from Isaï. The round performances are connected to this tree at the top. At the top left a round show of Isaï's son King David, who plays the harp. At the top right a round show with the judgment of King Solomon. At the bottom left a round show of King Brutus van Troje and Britain. The round performances are connected to other circles that are filled with names: these together form a schematic representation of genealogy and monitoring follow -up, which extends over several pages of the chronicle. At the bottom right a performance of the city of London. paper letterpress printing tree of Jesse: genealogical tree showing Christ's ancestors, sprouting from Jesse's loins. David (not in biblical context)

CHARACTER MEASURING. 16th CENTURY. Author: PEDRO APIANO (1495-1552). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

CRONICAS DE LAS CRUZADAS-1º CRUZADA-GODOFREDO DE BOUILLON CONQUISTA DE CIUDADES - MANUSCRITO DEL SIGLO XV. Author: DREUX JEAN. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. WIEN. AUSTRIA. BOUILLON GODOFREDO DE. JERUSALEN REY DE.

Detail from the Catalan Atlas Sheet 6 showing Mansa Musa, 1375

Archive Circus Poster: Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Shows Combined appearing at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, April 18, 1899

HISTORIA MATRITENSIS - HISTORIA DE LOS EMPERADORES BIZANTINOS DESDE EL AÑO 811 AL 1057 - CRONICA BIZANTINA - MANUSCRITO DEL SIGLO XII. Author: SKYLITZES JOHN O SCYLITZA IOANNES. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

GENEALOGIA DE LOS REYES DE ESPAÑA - REYES NAVARROS Y CASTELLANOS - CODICE COPIADO EN EL SIGLO XVI. Author: CARTAGENA ALONSO DE. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

CODICE TRUJILLO DEL PERU - TOMO II E 108 - INGENIO DE RASTRAS - ACUARELA - SIGLO XVIII. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Honor / Defenders of Rights and Freedoms / Nation. (IT)

Canon tables with decorative arches., 865 - 899, Brittany, Arches

Section from the Mayan Troano Codex. Maya peoples of Central and South America

CODEX AUREUS. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

14th Century astrolabic quadrant, the instrument combines Islamic design and French astronomical values. Dated 14th Century

Map of World. Date/Period: 1400 - 1500. Map. Height: 181 mm (7.12 in). Author: Egypt Unknown.

Vignette adorning attendance fees, cards, header papers; Revolutionary period (TF)

CODICE TRUJILLO DEL PERU - TOMO II E 113 - CHACO DE VICUÑAS (CACERIA DE ESTE MAMIFERO) - ACUARELA - SIGLO XVIII. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

CORTES, HERNAN CONQUISTADOR ESPAÑOL. MEDELLIN 1485-1547 CODICE DURAN."HISTORIA DE LAS INDIAS DE NUEVA ESPAÑA", 1537-1538 HERNAN CORTES JUNTO A LA INDIA MARINA MARINA BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL. MADRID.

Handwritten page from Theorica Musica by Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja (1440-1522) a Spanish mathematician, music theorist, and composer. Dated 16th Century

FACSIMIL - PAGINA DE CODICE TRO-CORTESIANO O DE MADRID - CODICE MAYA HECHO ENTRE EL SIGLO XIII Y XV - DIOSES Y HOMBRES. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Chastenet, Vicomte de Puysegur, Jacques de.

Banking for 5000 FRANCS, France, 25.10.1945 Servean, Clement (1886 1972), Banque de France, Paris

'Beaulx abc belles heures'. Book peddler. Belongs to the genre 'le Cris de Paris' that illustrates street vendors of Paris. Until the invention of printing, books of prayers ('hours') and alphabets for children are reserved for the aristocracy. From the sixteenth century, thin printed booklets are sold in the streets at an affordable price to the bourgeois. Woodcut, ca 1500. Early Modern Era. Engraving. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library.

Detail of a page from the Tudela Codex, written by the Aztecs with annotations in Castilian. 1553. Madrid, Museum of America. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Detail of ancient Book of the Dead (1070 BC), Thebes - Egypt

Detail from a page of Tudela Codex. Written by Aztecs, with annotations in Castilian. 1553. Madrid, Museum of America. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

PLANO DE LA PLANTA ANFITEATRO DE ITALICA. Location: ARCHIVO HISTORICO MILITAR. MADRID. SPAIN.

Carte Pezenay, 1793(TF)

Schutterijspel, approx. 1830; The new Schuttery, a companion game. Schutterijspel, board game with fifteen boxes with pictures of the members of the militia and dice. At the bottom of the rules. This also includes a separate leaf with rules. Part of a group of children's and companion games printed in the period ca. 1750-1850.

"Libro de antigüedades" o memorial histórico y documental sobre la fundación y la construcción de la Casa de Convalecencia, 1674. Arxiu de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

CRONICAS DE LAS CRUZADAS - ASALTO A UN CASTILLO - MANUSCRITO DEL SIGLO XV. Author: DREUX JEAN. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. WIEN. AUSTRIA.

Codex Borgia (Codex Yoalli Ehecatl) Mesoamerican manuscript, believed to have been written before the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Dated 16th Century

The Key of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis), Anonymous

DISCOURSE - HISTORY OF WEST INDIAS, NEW SPAIN. Author: DIEGO DURAN DIEGO (1537-1588). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Mexico.Mexico city.National Museum of Anthropology.Mexica-Aztec culture.Codex Borbonicus.

Il giuoco dell'oca del vero italiano, 1948

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