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Aldham, Thomas Rookby, Aldham

A.R. Barclay Correspondence, Volume 324

Correspondence, from Aldham, to Thomas Rookby

August Hermann Francke, Unknown

Francke Nachlass Correspondence

Correspondence, from anonymous, to August Hermann Francke

August Hermann Francke, Unknown

Francke Nachlass Correspondence

Correspondence, from anonymous, to August Hermann Francke

Johannes Tribbeko, August Hermann Francke, Johann Tribbechow

Francke Nachlass Correspondence

Correspondence, from Johannes Tribbeko, to August Hermann Francke

Frederick Slare, August Hermann Francke, Frederick Slare

Francke Nachlass Correspondence

Correspondence, from Frederick Slare, to August Hermann Francke

Frederick Slare, August Hermann Francke, Frederick Slare

Francke Nachlass Correspondence

Correspondence, from Frederick Slare, to August Hermann Francke

John Trevese, August Hermann Francke, John Trevese

Francke Nachlass Correspondence

Correspondence, from John Trevese, to August Hermann Francke

Poem, La Florida, Alonso Gregorio De Escobedo, Mikaela Perron, Thomas B. Hallock

Early Visions Bucket

"Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo, a Franciscan hailing from Andalucía, arrived in St. Augustine on October 7, 1587. Little is known about his life, except for what he included in his epic poem 'La Florida.' Penned sometime between 1598 and 1615, this massive composite work was modeled after the metrically elegant style of the octava real, the preferred poetic structure in Spanish letters at his time. Written as a poem, rather than a historical document, “La Florida” is read today for its anthropologically significant information, such as the description of Indian fishing practices found in Canto 27."

Tabvla Asiae Vii, Giovanni Antonion Magini, Ptolemy

Documents and Reports

Publication: [Agrippinensium Colonia?] : [Excudebat Petrus Keschedt?], [1597?]

Physical Description: 1 map ; 14 x 18 cm, on sheet 17 x 23 cm

Language: Latin

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale not given, (E 49°35ʹ--E 82°05ʹ/N 43°33ʹ--N 26°01ʹ).

Notes: Ptolemaic map covering central Asia, including the Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

Relief shown pictorially.

Uncolored.

Copper-plate map.

Verso is page 22 of an unidentified text in Latin, with heading: Asiae Tabvla VI.

Taken from an early edition of Giovanni Antonio Magini's Ptolemy's Geographia, tentatively identified as: Ptolemy. Geographiae vniuersae tum veteris, tum nouae abolutissimum opus, duobus voluminibus districtum. …

A.Z.S.Z., Klara Pommern Zu Herzogin

Poetry

No abstract provided.

Phantastes Chapter 23: Astrophel: An Elegy, Or Friend’S Passion, For His Astrophill, Matthew Roydon

German Romantic and Other Influences

Matthew Roydon (1580-1622), Elizabethan poet and friend of Sidney’s. In 1593, Roydon published his elegy for Sidney: “Astrophel: An Elegy, or Friend’s Passion, for His Astrophill.” MacDonald quotes lines 103-106. “The lineaments of Gospell bookes,” suggests that Sidney’s face exhibited a spirituality of a kind found in the four gospels of the New Testament

Phantastes Chapter 23: The Countess Of Pembroke’S Arcadia, Philip Sidney

German Romantic and Other Influences

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1583) was an Elizabethan courtier, soldier, and poet. The quotation derives from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590), and sets out Sidney’s definition of a gentleman. Late in his writing career, MacDonald published a collection of excerpts from Sidney: A Cabinet of Gems, Cut and Polished by Sir Philip Sidney (1892). MacDonald lectured on Sidney as early as 1854.

Phantastes Chapter 20: The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser

German Romantic and Other Influences

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), most famous for The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596), is a key influence on MacDonald generally and on Phantastes in particular. John Docherty writes that “MacDonald bases his upon the figure Phantastes living the forebrain of the ‘House of Alma' (the human body) in book 2 of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene” (“Sources of Phantastes,” North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, vol. 25, 2005, pages 16-28).

Astronomica Vetervm Scripta Isagogica Græca & Latina, Germanicus Caesar, [Heidelbergae] : In Officina Sanctandreana

Before the Textbook

Works by Proclus, Aratus, and Leontius Mechanicus in Greek; works by Aratus, Cicero, Avienus, Germanicus Caesar, and Hyginus in Latin.

Poem, Elegía A Juan Ponce De Léon, Juan De Castellanos, Thomas Hallock

Early Visions Bucket

The first part of Juan de Castellanos' Elegías was published in 1589. "Anthologized selectively for its early description of the Fountain of Youth, the Elegía a Juan Ponce de Léon was in fact one of several attempts by Spanish poets in the Americas to frame exploration and discovery in epic terms." Translated from the original Spanish.

A Brief And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia (1588), Thomas Hariot, Paul Royster , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

This is an online electronic text edition of the first book published by an English colonist in America. Its author, Thomas Hariot or Harriot, was a cartographer, mathematician, astronomer, linguist, and philosopher, who was a participant in Sir Walter Ralegh’s first attempt to establish a colony in “Virginia,” on Roanoke Island in modern-day North Carolina, from June 1585 until June 1586. Hariot had learned the rudiments of the Algonkian language from two natives brought back to England from an earlier exploratory voyage, and he served as interpreter and liaison with the native peoples of the surrounding region. His Brief and …

Excerpt, L'Histoire Notable De La Floride, Rene Goulaine De Laudonniere, Richard Hakluyt, Hugh Tulloch

Early Visions Bucket

"René Goulaine de Laudonnière’s account of his three voyages to America, published as L’Histoire notable de la Florida appeared in 1586, twelve years after his death."

Indrizzo De Gli Economi, O Sia Ordinatissima Instruttione Da Regolatamente Formare Qualunque Scrittura In Un Libro Doppio ..., Angelo Pietra

Individual and Corporate Publications

This illustration is the title page to Indrizzo de gli economi, o sia Ordinatissima instruttione da regolatamente formare qualunque scrittura in un libro doppio... / composta da Don Angelo Pietra Genovese Monaco. Mantova : Francesco Osanna, 1586. Don Angelo Pietra managed the financial affairs of his monastery in Geno in the late sixteen century. Building upon his practical knowledge of business he penned a work detailing the application of bookkeeping methods to the affairs of a monastery. Known for its emphasis on thorough stock taking, the Indrizzo de gli economi, was also innovative in its suggestion to value goods below …

Phantastes Chapter 15: Campaspe, John Lyly

German Romantic and Other Influences

Campaspe, an Elizabethan play by John Lyly (1584). The lines quoted are from Act 3, Scene 4, and they indicate the notion of a Platonic beauty, an ideal beauty that the artist can never capture perfectly

O Gott, Bewar Mein Herz Vnd Mund, Annelein Von Freiburg

Poetry

This text was graciously donated to Sophie by Dr. Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona.

Ich Weis Das Mein Erloeser Lebt, Dorothea Susanna Herzogin Von Sachsen-Weimar

Poetry

No abstract provided.

Excerpts, Octet And Discours De L'Historie De La Florite Contenant La Trahison Del Espangnols, Contre Les Sujects Du Roy, Nicolas Le Challeux, Valerie Lanham, Peter J. Monrrone, James Everett

Early Visions Bucket

"Carpenter and Protestant lay minister Nicolas Le Challeux documented his experiences in Florida in Discours de l’histoire de la florite contenant la trahison del Espangnols, contre les sujects du Roy (1579). Along with the chronicle of his journey, he also wrote two poems, one of which wittily warns future travelers about less-than-appealing prospects in a now 'lost colony.' As many Frenchmen were starving during their time in the New World, Le Challeux eerily named his octet, 'Hungry.'”

Excerpt, Memoir, Hernando De Escalante Fontaneda, Amelia Zimmerman, Alisa Roberts

Early Visions Bucket

"At mid-century, a thirteen-year old Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda shipwrecked on the Florida Keys. On his way to Spain, where he had been born, to start his formal education, Fontaneda was captured by" the Calusa "and lived amongst them for seventeen years, traveling with the [Calusa], learning native culture, and acquiring valuable knowledge about the Florida peninsula. His 1575 account, or 'Memoir,' describes the rugged environment, flora and fauna, foodways, geographic and ethnic regions"

Article And Poem, La Felice Victoria Que Dios Por Su Infinita Bondad Y Misericordia, Fue Seruido De Dar, Al Illustre Señor Pedro Menendez, Bartolomé De Flores, E. Thomas Shields Jr., Thomas Hallock

Early Visions Bucket

An article on Bartolomé de Flores's 1571 La Felice Victoria que Dios por su Infinita Bondad y Misericordia, fue Seruido de Dar, al Illustre Señor Pedro Melendez with a translation of the poem at the end of the article.

Excerpt, New Found Worlde Or Antarticke, André Thevet, Tami Toms

Early Visions Bucket

"The 1568 English translation of The New Found Worlde or Antarctike, provides a window into how Europeans imagined the Spanish-claimed territory. The reader is invited to see the 'wonderful and strange things' that Thevet has compiled, including an early description of the buffalo."

Excerpt, The Voyage Made By M. John Hawkins Esquire, 1565, John Sparke, Christina Lopez

Early Visions Bucket

John "Sparke’s account first reports [John] Hawkins’ experiences on the African coast as well as some in the West Indies. However, what is of particular importance to us is his subsequent description of Florida, its people, customs, landscape, wildlife, and interaction with the French previously settled there."

Petition, Request To The King, Unknown, A. E. Hammond, Valerie Lanham

Early Visions Bucket

"In the early morning of September 20, 1564, the Spanish attacked Fort Caroline, a French stronghold on the eastern Florida coastline near present day Jacksonville. Sparing approximately 60 women and children, the Spanish transported these captives to Puerto Rico. Eventually some returned to France where a petition, penned by an anonymous hand, appealed to King Charles IX for retaliation against the Spanish. The petitioners condemned the injustice and barbarity of the Spanish, pleaded for the king to intervene, and implored the restorative French right to the Florida province."

Poem, Commendation Of Thomas Stutely, Robert Seall, Michael Sadler

Early Visions Bucket

"Registered and printed around July of 1563, this English broadside ballad is the only work attributed to the author, Robert Seall, and it focuses on Thomas Stukeley. A man steeped in controversy since birth, Stukeley (Stucley, Stukely, Stutely–scholars have collected up to 24 spellings) was rumored to be a bastard child of Henry VIII and led a long life of piracy. The ballad was a public relations move to improve Stukeley’s image after a long life of alleged piracy and his revealing plans of an Anglo-Huguenot venture to Florida to a Spanish ambassador in London."

Excerpt, Whole And True Discoverye Of Terra Florida, Jean Ribault, Valerie Lanham

Early Visions Bucket

"After his death, Jean Ribault’s account was found and purchased in 1563 by Thomas Hacket, an Englishman who used the French document for his writing over French occupation. Only a few copies of the document were issued and printed in English. In 1875 the title was changed to Histoire de l’Expedition Francaise en Florida by Paul Gaffarfel. Finally in 1875 The Whole and True Account, a reprint of the 1563 London edition was published in New York."

Excerpt, Relaçam Verdadeira, Gentleman From Elvas, Alisa Roberts, Amelia Zimmerman

Early Visions Bucket

"The Gentleman of Elvas, as he is semi-anonymously referred to, wrote an account of the de Soto expedition."