In the Fall, Prof. Antonia Szabari's Arts & Literature class on Renaissance Travel Literature visits the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library to view materials from USC's Special Collections. The following books are discussed and examined. They are listed in alphabetical order by author. Questions regarding items listed on this page may be referred to Melinda K. Hayes, Librarian in Special Collections, USC.
Columbus, Christopher.
[Epistola de insulis nuper inventis. Latin]
Epistola Christofori Colom: cui etas nostra multum debet: de insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper invetis. Leander de Cosco ab Hispano idiomate in Latinum couertit: tertio kalen[das] Maij. M.cccc.xciij. Pontificatus Alexandri Sexti anno primo. Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 29 april 1493.
4 leaves.: facsim.; 20 cm.
This is the so-called "Ferdinand" edition of the Latin version of Columbus' letter to Rafael [i.e. Gabriel?] Sánchez, printed at Rome by Stephen Plannck, 1493.
Call number: E116 1493Mercator, Gerardus, 1512-1594.
Gérardi Mercatoris Atlas, sive, Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra, Primum à Gerardo Mercatore inchoatae, deinde à Iudoco Hondio piae memoriae ad finem perductae. Amsterodami : Sumptibus & typis Henrici Hondij, [1609?]
1 atlas (7 leaves, p. 19-712, 18 leaves) : double maps, double col. port. ; 48 cm.
Subject: Atlases.
Call number: 912.M553 (super-oversize)Ptolemy, 2nd cent.
Kl. Ptolemaiou Megales syntaxeos bibl. IG. ... Claudii Ptolemaei Magnae constructionis, id est Perfectae coelestium motuum pertractionis, Lib. XIII. Theonis Alexandrini in eosdem Commentariorum lib. XI. Basileae, apud Ioannem VValderum, 1538.
327 p. illus. 32 cm.
Text in Greek. Edited by Simon Grynaeus. cf. Dedication.
Subject: Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
Call number: 090.P97 (oversize)
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Created: September 4, 2007; Last updated: October 31, 2008