Fontenelle was a French philosopher of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a lawyer by profession and especially known among the European illustrated circle for his book Conversaciones acerca de la pluralidad de los mundos (Conversations about the plurality of worlds). This is a pioneering text among books of scientific dissemination,...
Princeton University has a large digital library made of excellent collections. Among these are the miscellany of Mesoamerican manuscripts coming from other collections: Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts Collection (C0744), Garrett Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts (C0744), and Princeton Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts (C0940). Among the manuscripts in custody are: el Chilam Balam de...
The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is considered the first modern atlas, whose first edition, in Antwerp, dates from 1570. The volume is the work of the flamenco Abraham Ortelius, who was named, after 5 years of having published his famous work, royal cartographer of Felipe II of Spain. Certainly this position...
Esta obra es la reproducción facsimilar, junto con una versión castellana, del más antiguo texto impreso acerca de la Universidad de México, escrito muy poco después de que esa institución inaugurara solemnemente sus cursos el día 3 de junio de 1553. Proporciona noticias sobre sus varias cátedras y quienes las...
Este libro guía premiado del catálogo de la exposición del Getty Iluminando el Renacimiento: El triunfo de la pintura manuscrita flamenca en Europa contiene trece documentos seleccionados presentados en dos conferencias celebradas en conjunción con esa exposición. La primera fue organizada por el Museo Getty, y la segunda se celebró en el...
De re ædificatoria (1452) de Leon Battista Alberti Alberti was published in Spanish in 1582. The work, which circulates in manuscript and printed media, was based on the work De architectura de Vitruvio. Alberti's work is based on the ten books of the classical Latin Vitruvio’s book : Lineamenta II. Materia...
This is a guide to an astronomical treatise of the ninth century, Aratea, given away by the University of Leiden and exhibited in the Museum. The book describes the manuscript, its place within Carolingian miniatures, and the importance of Phainomena de Aratus as text. The following chapters analyze the ancient...
This exhaustive and widely illustrated catalog focuses on the finest manuscripts illuminated and produced in Europe during the great era in Flemish Enlightenment. During this aesthetically fertile period (which began in 1467 with the reign of the Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, and ended in 1561 with the death...
This book makes available to the reader a series of works dedicated to women of the viceregal America, women who were writers or protagonists of relevant events in the conquest of various territories of the region. Along with the studies dedicated to summits of colonial letters such as sor Juana...
The Proyecto de Estudios Indianos inaugurates with the Amarilis Library a series of digital collections that gather the volumes that occupied the shelves of the American writers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Libraries are a valuable tool for understanding the books and for reconstructing the ideological borders that...
In the volume La Filomena y otras diversas rimas (La Filomena and several other rhymes) of Lope de Vega, printed in Madrid in 1621, appears the sixth epistle titled "Epistle from Amarilis to Belardo". In our Glosario de Indias (Glossary of Indies) there is an entry for these editions, It...
Printed in 1598 in Madrid, this work of Lope de Vega had throughout the sixteenth century some twenty editions. It represents a fundamental moment of artistic and literary syncretism to understand the development of the Letters during the seventeenth century, both in Spain as in the American viceroyalties. It is...