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RUTTER Virtual Library

  • A Sea of Books
  • Home
  • COMING SOON
  • Portuguese printed rutters
  • PRE-LINSCHOTEN
  • Linschoten’s Itinerario
  • PRE-jesuits
  • Jesuit travel reports
  • Pre-Arts
  • Iberian nautical knowledge
  • Astrolabs-Pre
  • Astrolabs
  • Medina's Arte de Navegar
  • Medina's Arte de navegar
  • Pre-Spanish
  • Spanish printed rutters
  • Pre-English
  • Bourne's books on navigation
  • PRE-Books on Ship building
  • Books on ship building
  • Main sources
  • Logos
  • Presented on 27 November
  • …  
    • A Sea of Books
    • Home
    • COMING SOON
    • Portuguese printed rutters
    • PRE-LINSCHOTEN
    • Linschoten’s Itinerario
    • PRE-jesuits
    • Jesuit travel reports
    • Pre-Arts
    • Iberian nautical knowledge
    • Astrolabs-Pre
    • Astrolabs
    • Medina's Arte de Navegar
    • Medina's Arte de navegar
    • Pre-Spanish
    • Spanish printed rutters
    • Pre-English
    • Bourne's books on navigation
    • PRE-Books on Ship building
    • Books on ship building
    • Main sources
    • Logos
    • Presented on 27 November

A Sea of Books

RUTTER Virtual Library

  • A Sea of Books
  • Home
  • COMING SOON
  • Portuguese printed rutters
  • PRE-LINSCHOTEN
  • Linschoten’s Itinerario
  • PRE-jesuits
  • Jesuit travel reports
  • Pre-Arts
  • Iberian nautical knowledge
  • Astrolabs-Pre
  • Astrolabs
  • Medina's Arte de Navegar
  • Medina's Arte de navegar
  • Pre-Spanish
  • Spanish printed rutters
  • Pre-English
  • Bourne's books on navigation
  • PRE-Books on Ship building
  • Books on ship building
  • Main sources
  • Logos
  • Presented on 27 November
  • …  
    • A Sea of Books
    • Home
    • COMING SOON
    • Portuguese printed rutters
    • PRE-LINSCHOTEN
    • Linschoten’s Itinerario
    • PRE-jesuits
    • Jesuit travel reports
    • Pre-Arts
    • Iberian nautical knowledge
    • Astrolabs-Pre
    • Astrolabs
    • Medina's Arte de Navegar
    • Medina's Arte de navegar
    • Pre-Spanish
    • Spanish printed rutters
    • Pre-English
    • Bourne's books on navigation
    • PRE-Books on Ship building
    • Books on ship building
    • Main sources
    • Logos
    • Presented on 27 November
  • For all book lovers,

    a piece of Oceanic History.

     

    «Il libro è come il cucchiaio, il martello, la ruota, le forbici.

    Una volta che li hai inventati non puoi fare di meglio.»

    UMBERTO ECO

  • This site is an offshoot of the ERC Project «RUTTER: Making the Earth Global», led by HENRIQUE LEITÃO. Early modern nautical rutters (sailing directions) are the earliest Western documents that testify to the stable and regular lived experience of traversing the earth’s oceans on a global, planetary scale.

     

    The virtual collection A Sea of Books was born —almost by chance— as a bibliographical resource of the RUTTER Project. It is a useful tool to begin a reflection on a sheer variety of literary genres produced from the Early Modern experience of voyaging in open sea.

    The deep affinity shared between traveling long distances and writing kickstarted a colossal printing industry from the very beginning of the 16th century. The open sea influenced the imagination of generations of travelers, explorers, cosmographers, men of letters and common people in vastly different ways, engaging with concepts from marine ecology, science, oceanography, marine policy and environmental history.

     

    In this website you will find a constellation of specialized virtual libraries on maritime literature, organized in various sections. Every section is continuously updated.

     

    All the sources are open–access.

  • Treatises on sea astrolabe and quadrant (16th–17th centuries)

    Curated by Miguel C. Fernandes

    Pedro Nunes’ works on navigation (16th century)

    Curated by Tiago Rocha e Mello

  • Portuguese printed rutters (17th–18th centuries)

    Curated by Luana Giurgevich

     

    In a context where knowledge was reported mostly by word of mouth, the action of writing itself assumes significant meaning. Over the years, the pilots’ routine task of remembering oceanic routes became a well–defined textual genre. The majority of these documents remained unpublished until the 19 century, but there is an important number of them which started to be printed in Europe for a larger audience from the 16 century. In this section, we gather all Portuguese editions of nautical rutters.

     

    These digitized archival sources are a complementary resource of a recently published technical note. See RUTTER Technical Notes Series no. 1

    SIMÃO

    DE OLIVEIRA

    Arte de navegar (1606)

    Digitized by BNP

    MANUEL

    DE FIGUEIREDO

    Hydrographia (1608)

    Not yet available online

    MANUEL

    DE FIGUEIREDO

    Roteiro e navegação das Indias Occidentais, Ilhas, Antilhas do Mar Oceano Occidental... (1609)

    Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library

    MANUEL

    DE FIGUEIREDO

    Hydrographia, exame de pilotos... (1614)

    Source Google Books

    MANUEL

    DE FIGUEIREDO

    Hydrographia, exame de pilotos... (1625)

    Source Google Books

    MANUEL

    DE FIGUEIREDO

    Hydrographia, exame de pilotos... (1632)

    Not yet available online

    GASPAR FERREIRA REIMÃO

    Roteiro da navegaçam e carreira da India, com seus caminhos, & derrotas, sinaes, & aguageis, & differenças da agulha...

    Digitized by BNP

    ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO

    Regimento de pilotos, e roteiro das navegaçoens da India Oriental... (1642)

    Digitized by BNP

    ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO

    Regimento de pilotos, e roteiro da navegaçam, e conquistas do Brazil, Angola, S. Thome, Cabo Verde, Maranhaõ, Ilhas & Indias... (16422)

    Digitized by BNE (Biblioteca Digital Hispánica)

    ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO

    Regimento de pilotos, e roteiro da navegaçam, e conquistas do Brazil, Angola, S. Thome, Cabo Verde, Maranhaõ, Ilhas & Indias... (1655)

    Digitized by BNP

    ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO

    Roteiro da India Oriental (1666)

    Digitized by BNP

    LUÍS SERRÃO PIMENTEL

    Roteiro do Mar Mediterraneo... (1675)

    Not yet available online

    LUÍS SERRÃO PIMENTEL

    Arte pratica de navegar e regimento de pilotos (1681)

    Digitized by BNP

    MANUEL

    PIMENTEL

    Arte pratica de navegar: & Roteiro (1699)

    Digitized by BNP

    MANUEL

    PIMENTEL

    Arte de navegar, em que se ensinam as regras praticas (1712)

    Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library

    MANUEL

    PIMENTEL

    Arte de navegar, em que se ensinam as regras praticas (1746)

    Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library

    MANUEL

    PIMENTEL

    Arte de navegar, em que se ensinão as regras praticas (1762)

    Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library

    JACINTO JOSÉ PAGANINO

    Roteiro do Neptuno Oriental para uso das cartas (1783)

    Not yet available online

    JACINTO JOSÉ PAGANINO

    Roteiro do Neptuno Oriental para a Navegação da China (1783)

    Source Google Books

    JACINTO JOSÉ PAGANINO

    Roteiro oriental para a navegação das costas do Grande Oceano (1783)

    Not yet available online

    JACINTO JOSÉ PAGANINO

    Roteiro occidental para a navegação da costa e portos do Brasil (1784)

    Not yet available online

  • Jan Huygen van Linschoten

    (1563–1611)

     

    «Soufrir pour parvenir»

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Fig. Hand coloured printed portrait of the Author featured in the editio princeps of his Itinerario published in 1596.

  • Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario

    Editions & translations (1596–1668)

     

    Curated by Nuno Vila–Santa

     

    Linschoten’s Itinerario fascinated European readers of his times and continues to provide a wealth of details about Portuguese sea routes and trade to India. The book quickly turned into several editions (around 30) and became a 17th–century best–seller of maritime literature. Sailors used it as a navigation manual and this is the reason why it was shipped on board Dutch, English and French vessels.

    First Edition–Dutch

    Itinerario

    (Amsterdam: 1596)

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library

    English Edition

    Iohn Huighen van Linschoten his Discours of voyages

    (London: 1598)

    Digitized by

     

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor

    Biodiversity Heritage Library

    German Edition

    Ander Theil der Orientalischen Indien

    (1598)

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library

    Latin Edition

    Nauigatio ac itinerarium (1599)

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor University of Padova–Library of the Botanical Garden

    Latin Edition

    II. Pars Indiae Orientalis

    (Frankfurt: 1599) 

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library

    German Edition

    Dritter Theil Indiae Orientalis

    (Frankfurt: 1599) 

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library

    German Edition

    Vierder Theil der Orientalischen (1600)

    Source Google Books / Original from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek

    Latin Edition

    Pars quarta Indiae Orientalis

    (1601)

    Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France

    Dutch Edition

    (1604)

    Not yet available online

    Dutch Edition

    Reys–gheschrift

    (1604)

    Not yet available online

    French Edition

    Histoire de la navigation

    (1610)

    Digitized by BnF–Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France

    First Latin Edition of Part X.

    Indiae Orientalis pars X.

    (Frankfurt: 1613)

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library

    German Edition

    Ander Theil der Orientalischen Indien (Frankfurt: 1613) 

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library

    Dutch Edition

    Itinerarium

    (Amsterdam: 1614)

    Digitized by Radboud University–University Library (Nijmegen)

    Dutch Edition

    Reys–gheschrift

    (1614)

    Not yet available online

    German Edition

    Dritter Theil Indiae Orientalis (1616)

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library

    German Edition

    Vierder Theil der Orie[n]talischen Indien

    (1617)

    Not yet available online

    French Edition

    Histoire de la nauigation

    (1619)

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor University of Padova–Library of the Botanical Garden

    French Edition

    Description de l'Amerique

    (1619)  

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor University of Alberta Libraries

    French Edition

    Le grand routier de mer (1619)

    Digitized by MANIOC–Bibliothèque Numérique Caraïbe Amazonie Plateau des Guyanes

    Dutch Edition

    Itinerarium

    (1623)

    Not yet available online

    Dutch Edition

    Reys–gheschrift van de navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten

    (1623)

    Not yet available online

    Latin Edition

    II. Pars Indiae Orientalis

    (1628)

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library

    Latin Edition

    Tertia pars Indiae Orientalis (1629)

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor John Carter Brown Library

    French Edition

    Histoire de la navigation (1638)

    Source Archive.org / Digitizing Sponsor Google | unknown library

    French Edition

    Description de l'Amérique

    (1638)

    Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France

    French Edition

    Le Grand routier de mer (1638)

    Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France

    Dutch Edition

    Itinerarium

    (Amsterdam: 1644)

    Source Google Books / Original from Bibliothèque Municipal de Lyon

    Dutch Edition

    Reys–Gheschrift (Amsterdam: 1644)

    Source Google Books / Original from National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)

    Dutch Edition

    Edition by Gillis Joosten Saeghman of Amsterdam

    (1668)

    Not yet available online

  • Jesuit travel reports

     

    «Nous établîmes des conférences où l’on apprenoit les élemens d’Euclide, la Geometrie, la navigation, et quelque chose même des fortifications. Ainsi que dans tous nos Vaisseaux nous tachâmes de charmer l’ennuy d’une longue navigation, et encore plus d’en bannir l’oisiveté, qui est la source de tous les desordres. Reprenons le cours de nôtre voyage.»

     

    Père Tachard, Second voyage du père Tachard au Royaume de Siam (1689)

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Fig. Printed map from Observations physiques et mathematiques pour servir a l’histoire naturelle & à la perfection de l’astronomie & de la geographie: envoyées des Indes et de la Chine à l’Academie Royale des Sciences à Paris par les Perés Jesuites... A Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1692, pp. 72–73.

  • Jesuit travel reports concerning oceanic sailing

    Curated by David Salomoni

     

    This selection contains texts related to oceanic voyages made by members of religious orders, mainly Jesuits but also Franciscans and secular priests. Serial publications such as notices and annual reports (Notizie, Relazioni) from the missions have been excluded. Diaries and single reports of voyages which are not part of regular series have been included. These works contain information of scientific or devotional kind concerning the oceanic travel experience of religious people.

     

    These digitized archival sources are a complementary resource of a recently published technical note.

    See RUTTER Technical Notes Series no. 3

    Epistolae Indicae De Stupendis Et Praeclaris Rebus...

    Lovanii: apud Rutgerum Velpium, 1566.

    Source/Original from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek Digital

    Alguns capitulos tirados das cartas que vieram este anno de 1588...

    Lisboa: per Antonio Ribeyro, 1588.

    Digitized by BNP

    PEDRO MARTÍNEZ

    Raguaglio D’vn Notabilissimo Naufragio...

    In Venetia: appresso i Gioliti, 1588.

    Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma

    Cartas qve os padres e irmãos da Companhia de Iesus escreuerão dos Reynos de Iapão & China...

    Em Euora: por Manoel de Lyra, 1598.

    Digitized by BNP

    LUIS DE GUZMÁN (SJ)

    Historia de las Misiones que han hecho los religiosos de la Compañia de Jesus, en la India Oriental...

    En Alcalá: por la Biuda de Iuan Gracián, 1601.

    Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca de Catalunya

    PEDRO CHIRINO (SJ) 

    Relacion de las Islas Filipinas...

    En Roma: por Estevan Paulino, 1604.

    Digitized by Google / Original from Universidad Complutense Madrid

    GEORGES FOURNIER (SJ)

    Hydrographie contenant la theorie et la practique de toutes les parties de la navigation.

    Paris: Chez Michel Solys, 1643.

    Digitized by Bibliothèques et Arquives Nationales du Québec / Numérique

    LORENZO ORTIZ (SJ)

    El Principe del Mar San Francisco Xavier de la Compañia de Jesus...

    En Cadiz: en la Imprenta del Colegio de la Compañia de Jesus, 1688.

    Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca Universidad Complutense Madrid

    GUY TACHARD (SJ)

    Second voyage du père Tachard et des Jesuites envoyez par le Roy au royaume du Syam contenant diverses remarques d’histoire, de physique, de geographie, & d’astronomie.

    A Paris: Chez Daniel Horthemels, 1689.

    Digitized by Google / Original from

    Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire–Lausanne

    GIROLAMO MEROLLA (OFM) 

    Breve e succinta relatione del viaggio nel regno di Congo nell’Africa meridionale.

    In Napoli: per Francesco Mollo, 1692.

    Digitized by Google / Original from Indiana University Bloomington Libraries

    Observations physiques et mathematiques pour servir a l’histoire naturelle & à la perfection de l’astronomie & de la geographie: envoyées des Indes et de la Chine à l’Academie Royale des Sciences à Paris par les Perés Jesuites...

    A Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1692.

    Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca Universidad Complutense Madrid

    BALTHAZAR TELLES

    The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia.

    London: Printed for J. Knapton, 1710.

    Digitized by Google / Original from

    Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire–Lausanne

    The Travels of Several Learned Missioners of the Society of Jesus into Diverse Parts of the Archipelago India, China, and America.

    London: Printed for R. Gosling, 1714.

    Digitized by Google / Original from University of Michigan Library

    ÉTIENNE SOUCIET (SJ)

    Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, géographiques, chronologiques et physiques...

    Paris: Rollin, 1729.

    Digitized by Google / Original from

    The National Library of the Netherlands

    ÉTIENNE SOUCIET (SJ)

    Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, géographiques, chronologiques et physiques...

    Tome II.

    Paris: Rollin, 1732.

    Digitized by Google / Original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

    ÉTIENNE SOUCIET (SJ)

    Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, géographiques, chronologiques et physiques...

    Tome III.

    Paris: Rollin, 1732.

    Digitized by Google / Original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

    PIERRE DE CHARLEVOIX (SJ) 

    Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France avec le Journal Historique d’un voyage fait par ordre du Roi dans l’Amérique Septentrionale...

    Tome II.

    Paris: chez Pierre François Giffart, 1744..

    Digitized by Internet Archive / Original from University of Alberta / Available on HathiTrust Digital Library

    FRANCISCO DE SOTO Y MARNE (OFM)

    Copia de la relacion y Diario Critico–Nautico de el viage que desde la ciudad de Cadiz à la de Cartagena de Indias...

    Madrid: En la Imprenta de Musica de D. Eugenio Bieco, 1753.

    Digitized by Google / Original from Biblioteca Universidad Complutense Madrid

    CARLO ORAZI 

    Brevissima notizia o relazione di vari viaggi, fatiche e patimenti, opere, del reverendo padre Carlo Horatii da Castorano

    In Livorno: Per gli Eredi Santini, 1759.

    Source Archive.org / Google

    Unknown library

    JOHN LOCKMAN

    Travels of the Jesuits into Various Parts of the World Particularly China and the East–Indies.

    Vol. II.

    London: Printed for T. Piety, 1762.

    Source Archive.org / Google

    Original from Oxford University

  • Martín Fernández de Enciso

    Suma de geographía que trata de todas las partidas del Mundo, em especial de las Indias. Y trata largamente del arte de marear (Sevilla: Jacobo Cronberger, 1519)​.

     

    In the colophon to the Suma, Enciso indicates all his sources and among them included «the experience of our times, which is the mother of all things».

     

    «Fenece la Suma de geographia con la espera en romance y el regimiento del sol y del norte por donde los mareantes se pueden regir y governar en el marear. Assi mesmo va puesta la cosmographia por derrotas y alturas: por donde los pilotos sabran de oy en adelante muy mejor que falta aqui pra descobrir las tierras que ouieren de descobrir, fue sacada esta suma de muchos y auctenticos autores. Conviene a saber dela historia batriana, los dos Tholomeos, Erastotenes, Plinio, Strabon, Josepho, y la experiencia de nuestros tiempos que es madre de todas las cosas. Fue impressa en la nobilissima y muy leal ciudad de Sevilla por Jacobo Cronberger aleman en el año de la encarnacion de nuestro senor. de mil y quinientos y diez y nueue.»

     

     

    Fig. From Enciso’s Suma (1519), p. 38.

  • Iberian nautical knowledge

    Portuguese and Spanish Editions (16th–18th centuries)

     

    Curated by Luana Giurgevich

     

    This section includes a fundamental corpus of nautical knowledge (manuals, regiments, arts of navigation and treatises). All the editions of the famous Medina’s Arte de navegar constitute an independent section of this site.

    MARTÍN FERNÁNDEZ

    DE ENCISO

    Suma de geographía que trata de todas las partidas del Mundo, em especial de las Indias. Y trata largamente del arte de marear (1519)

    Digitized by BNP

     

    FRANCISCO FALERO

    Tratado del esphera y del arte del marear (Sevilla: Juan Cronberger, 1535)

    Digitized by BSB

     

    PEDRO DE MEDINA

    Arte de navegar (1545)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    DIOGO DE SÁ

    De Navigatione (1549)

    Source Google Books / Original from BSB

    MARTÍN CORTÉS

    Breue compendio de la sphera y de la arte de nauegar (1551)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    MARTÍN CORTÉS

    Breue compendio de la sphera y de la arte de nauegar (1556)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    RODRIGO ZAMORANO

    Compendio de la arte de nauegar (1581)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    PEDRO DE MEDINA

    Regimie[n]to de nauegacio[n] (en las casas de Simon Carpintero...: 1563)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    ANDRÉS MUÑOZ

    Instruycion y Regimiento para que los Marineros sepa[n] vsar del Artilleria (s.l.: s.n., 1563)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    PEDRO NUNES

    Petri Nonii Salaciensis Opera (Basileae: Henricpetri,1566)

    Digitized by Google / Original from BSB

     

    PEDRO NUNES

    De arte atque ratione navigandi (Conimbricae : a Mariis, 1573)

    Digitized by Google / Original from BSB

     

    RODRIGO ZAMORANO

    Compendio de la arte de nauegar (1582)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    RODRIGO ZAMORANO

    Compendio del arte de navegar (Sevilla: en casa de Ioan de Leon, 1588)

    Digitized by Google

    RODRIGO ZAMORANO

    Compendio de la arte de nauegar (1591)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    PEDRO DE SYRIA

    Arte de la verdadera nauegacion en que se trata de la machina del mu[n]do (1602)

    Digitized by BNE

    JOÃO BAPTISTA LAVANHA

    Regimento Nautico (Lisboa: Simão Lopez, 1595)

    Digitized by BNP

     

    SIMÃO

    DE OLIVEIRA 

    Arte de Navegar (1606)

    Digitized by BNP

    JOÃO BAPTISTA LAVANHA

    Regimento Nautico (Em Lisboa: por Antonio Alvarez, 1606)

    Not yet available online

     

    ANDRÉS GARCÍA DE CESPEDES

    Regimiento de navegacion (En casa de Juan de la Cuesta, 1606)

    Source Google Books / Original from Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    VALENTIM DE SÁ

    Regimento da navegaçam

    (Lisboa: Pedro Craesbeeck, 1624)

    Not yet available online

     

    LORENZO FERRER MALDONADO

    Imagen del mundo sobre la esfera, cosmografia y geografia teorica de planetas y arte de navegar (1626)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    ANTONIO DE NAIERA

    Navegacion especulativa y pratica (Lisboa: Pedro Craesbeeck, 1628)

    Source Archive.org / Original from Biblioteca Universidad Sevilla

    LÁZARO

    DE FLORES

    Arte de Navegar (1673)

    Digitized by Google, Original from Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    LUÍS SERRÃO PIMENTEL

    Arte pratica de navegar e regimento de pilotos (1681)

    Digitized by BNP

    MANUEL PIMENTEL

    Arte pratica de navegar: & Roteiro (1699)

    Digitized by BNP

    MANUEL PIMENTEL

    Arte de navegar, em que se ensinam as regras praticas (1712)

    Digitized by Open Library / Internet Archive –Original from John Carter Brown Library

    MANUEL PIMENTEL

    Arte de navegar, em que se ensinam as regras praticas (1746)

    Digitized by Open Library / Internet Archive –Original from John Carter Brown Library

    MANUEL PIMENTEL

    Arte de navegar, em que se ensinão as regras praticas (1762)

    Digitized by Open Library / Internet Archive –Original from John Carter Brown Library

    JOSÉ QUIROGA

    Tratado de el arte verdadero de navegar pro circulo paralelo a la equinocial (1784)

    Digitized by BNE

     

    FRANCISCO

    DE BARREDA

    El marinero instruido en el arte de navegar especulativo y práctico que para la enseñanza de los colegiales del Real Seminario de San Telmo (1786)

    Digitized by BNE

     

  • Pedro de Medina

    Arte de navegar (1545)

    [Dedication to then crown prince Philip]:

     

    «Lo segundo, serenissimo señor, que a esto me ha mouido fue, que yo muchas vezes he puesto mi memoria en considerar quan gran numero de gentes nauegam: y que no solamente las partes notas y sabidas, mas las muy remotas y apartadas, y que dellas no ay noticia, se procuran nauegando buscar y saber: y viendo quan largos y peligrosos caminos por la mar se hazen, y que pocos de los que nauegan saben lo que a la nauegacion se requiere, la causa es porque ni ay maestros que lo enseñen, ni libros en que lo leam.»

  • Pedro de Medina’s Arte de navegar

    Editions & translations (1545–1634)

     

    Curated by Luana Giurgevich

     

    Some books moved the imagination of all Europe more than others. Pedro de Medina's Arte de navegar is one of them.

    The book was translated at least 20 times. Originally published in 1545, it was quickly translated into Italian and French, but, curiously, not to Dutch and English until 1580–1581.

    Arte de nauegar (1545)

    Digitized by BNE

    L’arte del navegar. Translated by Vincenzo Paletino da Corzula (Venezia: 1554)

    Digitized by Bayerische StaatsBibliothek

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Lyon: 1554)

    Digitized by Bayerische StaatsBibliothek

    L’arte del navegar. Translated by Vincenzo Paletino da Corzula (Venezia: 1555)

    Digitized by Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Lyon: 1561)

    Digitized by Bayerische StaatsBibliothek

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Lyon: 1569)

    Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1573)

    Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Lyon: 1576)

    Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque Nationale de France

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1577)

    Source Google Books / Original from Ghent University

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1579)

    Digitized by Google – Original from the National Library of the Czech Republic

    Der Zeeuaert, Oft Conste van ter Zee te varen. Transl. by Martin Everaert (Antwerp: 1580)

    Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library

    The arte of navigation. Translated by John Frampton (London 1581)

    Not yet available online

    Der Zeeuaert, Oft Conste van ter Zee te varen (Amsterdam: 1589)

    Source Google Books / Original from Ghent University

    The arte of navigation. Translated by John Frampton (London 1595)

    Not yet available online

    Der Zeeuaert, Oft Conste van ter Zee te varen (Amsterdam: 1598)

    Not yet available online

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1602)

    Source Google Books / Original from Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1607)

    Not yet available online

    L’arte del nauigare (Venezia: 1609)

    Source Archive.org / Original from John Carter Brown Library

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (La Rochelle: 1615)

    Not yet available online

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (La Rochelle: 1618)

    Not yet available online

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1628)

    Digitized by BNE

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1633)

    Source Google Books / Original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

    L’art de naviguer. Traduction de Nicolas de Nicolay (Rouen: 1634)

    Not yet available online

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    Fig. From the rutter of Andrés de Poza, Hydrografia, la mas curiosa que hasta aqui ha salido a luz : en que de mas de vn derrotero general, se enseña la navegacion por altura y derrota, y la del Este Oeste con la Graduacion de los puertos, y la navegacion al Catayo por cinco vias diferentes... Bilbao : por Matias Mares, 1585.

  • Spanish printed rutters

    Printed editions (16th–18th centuries)

     

    Curated by Luana Giurgevich

    MARTÍN FERNÁNDEZ

    DE ENCISO

    Suma de geographía que trata de todas las partidas del Mundo, em especial de las Indias. Y trata largamente del arte de marear (1519)

    Digitized by BNP

    ANDRÉS DE POZA

    Hydrographia la mas curiosa (Bilbao: 1585)

    Digitized by Biblioteca Virtual del Ministerio de Defensa, Original from Observatorio de Marina de San Fernando

    BERNARDINO ESCALANTE

    Discurso de la navegacion que los portugueses hazen (Sevilla: 1577)

    Digitized by GREDOS, Universidad de Salamanca

    BERNARDINO ESCALANTE

    A discourse of the nauigation which the Portugales doe make (London: 1579) Transl. by John Frampton

    Not yet available online

    GABRIEL CHAVES DE OSORIO

    Derrotero y relacion que su señoria el señor preste d. Gabriel de Chaves Osorio

    (s.l., [1630])

    Not yet available online

    ANTÓNIO DE MARIZ CARNEIRO

    Hydrographia la mas curiosa (1675)

    Digitized by Google Books

    FRANCISCO DE SEIJAS Y LOBERA

    Descripción Geographica, y derrotero de la Region Austral Magallanica (1690)

    Digitized by Google Books

    VICENTE TOFIÑO DE SAN MIGUEL

    Derrotero de las costas de España en el Mediterraneo (1787–1789)

    Digitized by Google Books

    FRANCISCO DE SEIJAS Y LOBERA

    Theatro Naval Hydrographico, de los fluxos, y refluxos (Madrid: 1688)

    Not yet available online

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    William Bourne (16th century)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Fig. Plans for Bourne underwater boat.

  • William Bourne's books on navigation (1567–1631)

    Curated by Luana Giurgevich

     

    In this section we present the printed works from the pen of the English mathematician William Bourne, active from 1565 to 1582. The Regiment for the Sea had more than 10 English editions, 4 Dutch editions and an edition for Spanish readers printed in London.

    LOST EDITION

    An almanacke and prognostication for three yeares... now newlye added vnto my late rulles of nauigation, was pruued iiij yeres past.

    London : by Thomas Purfoote, [1567].

    An Almanac and Prognostication for Three Years... Lord. 1571. and 1572. & 1573...

    [Colophon: Imprinted at London in Paules... by Thomas Purfoote, 1567] [1571].

    Not yet available online

    Regiment for the Sea.

    London: By [Henry Bynneman for] Thomas Hacket, and are to be solde at his shop in the Royall Exchaunge, at the signe of the Greene Dragon, [1574].

    Not yet available online

    A Regiment for the Sea.

    London: by Thomas Dawson and Thomas Gardyner for Iohn Wight, 1577.

    Not yet available online

    A booke called the treasure for traueilers : deuided into fiue bookes or partes, contaynyng very necessary matters, for all sortes of trauailers, eyther by sea or by lande

    1578

    Source Archive.org / Digitized by Associates of the Boston Public Library / Original from

    Boston Public Library

    LOST EDITION

    [Inventions or Devises. Very necessary for all Gener–alles and Captaines, or Leaders of men, as wel by Sea as by Land]

    [1578?–printed before 1580]

    Listed by Bourne in his Almanacke of 1581

    A Regiment for the Sea.

    London: T. East, for Iohn Wight, 1580.

    Not yet available online

    A Regiment for the Sea.

    London: T. East, for Iohn Wight, 1584.

    Not yet available online

    SPANISH EDITION

    Discurso hydrografico sobre la navegacion del Catayo...

    included in Hydrografia la mas curiosa of ANDRÉS DE POZA

    Bilbao: por Mathias Mares,1585.

    Digitized by Biblioteca Virtual del Ministerio de Defensa, Original from Observatorio de Marina de San Fernando

    A Regiment for the Sea...

    London: T. East, for Iohn Wight, 1587.

    Not yet available online

    A Regiment for the Sea... Newlie corrected and amended by Thomas Hood...

    London: T. East, for Iohn Wight, 1592.

    Not yet available online

    DUTCH EDITION

    Der Const der Zee–vaerdt...

    Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz...:1594.

    Not yet available online

    Regiment for the Sea.

    1596

    Not yet available online

    DUTCH EDITION

    Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz: 1599.

    Not yet available online

    Regiment for the Sea.

    1601

    Not yet available online

    Regiment for the Sea.

    1606?

    Not yet available online

    DUTCH EDITION

    Amstelredam: Cornelis Claesz: 1609.

    Not yet available online

    Regiment for the Sea.

    London : Weaver, 1611.

    Not yet available online

    DUTCH EDITION

    Amsterdam: Willem Jansz Blaeu, 1614.

    Not yet available online

    Regiment for the Sea.

    1617?

    Not yet available online

    Regiment for the Sea.

    London : Weaver, 1620.

    Not yet available online

    Regiment for the Sea.

    At London: Printed by W. I[ones] for Thomas Weauer..., [1631].

    Not yet available online

  • Main sources

  • The RUTTER Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 833438).

  • Presented on 27 November at the European Researchers’ Night 2020.

    A Sea of Books. RUTTER Virtual Library (https://www.aseaofbooks.org/) is a site dedicated to the sheer variety of literary genres produced from the Early Modern experience of voyaging in open sea, considering especially, but not only, technical books like sailing directions.

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