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  • Linschoten’s Itinerario
  • PRE-jesuits
  • Jesuit travel reports
  • Pre-Arts
  • Iberian nautical knowledge
  • Pedro-de-Medina
  • Medina's Arte de navegar
  • Pre-Spanish
  • Spanish printed rutters
  • Pre-English
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    • 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
    • Pedro-de-Medina
    • Medina's Arte de navegar
    • Pre-Spanish
    • Spanish printed rutters
    • Pre-English
    • Bourne's books on navigation
    • 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
    • Pedro-de-Medina
    • Medina's Arte de navegar
    • Pre-Spanish
    • Spanish printed rutters
    • Pre-English
    • Bourne's books on navigation
    • Main sources
    • Logos
    • Presented on 27 November
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      • 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
      • Pedro-de-Medina
      • Medina's Arte de navegar
      • Pre-Spanish
      • Spanish printed rutters
      • Pre-English
      • Bourne's books on navigation
      • Main sources
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      • Presented on 27 November
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      • COMING SOON
      • Portuguese printed rutters
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      • Linschoten’s Itinerario
      • PRE-jesuits
      • Jesuit travel reports
      • Pre-Arts
      • Iberian nautical knowledge
      • Pedro-de-Medina
      • Medina's Arte de navegar
      • Pre-Spanish
      • Spanish printed rutters
      • Pre-English
      • Bourne's books on navigation
      • Main sources
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        • 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 «Rutters: 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

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