Entries Tagged as '1590's'

November 28, 2006

Item of the Day: The Geneva Bible (1595)

Full Title:
The Bible: That is, the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable Annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance. Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, [...]

January 24, 2006

Item of the Day: Il Consolato del Mare (1599)

Full Title Page:
IL
PORTOLANO
DEL MARE;
NEL QVAL SI DICHIARA
MINVTAMENTE DEL SITO
DI TVTTI PORTI.
QVALI SONO DA VENETIA
in Leuante, & in Ponente: & d’altre
cose utilissime, & necessarie
a i Nauiganti.

DI NVOVO CON QVELLA PIV
accurata diligentia, che s’รจ potuto,
corretto, & ristampato.
IN VENETIA, Apresso Lucio Spineda.
M D X C I X.

Bound With:

IL
CONSOLATO
DEL MARE;
NEL QVALE DI COMPRENDONO
tutti gli Statuti, & Ordini: disposti da [...]

September 30, 2005

Item of the Day: Letter from Sir John Popham (1592)

(Click on address and letter to enlarge.)
This letter appointed a hearing of the cause between Sir Edward Hoby, Knight, and the College of Brazen Nose, at Serjeants’ Inn, Fleet Street, on Friday before the ensuing Term, with the autographs of Sir John Popham, Knight, Lord Chief Justice, and Thomas Egerton, Attorney-General, afterwards Lord High Chancellor, [...]