Collins Memorial Library: History 304: Global Renaissance, c.1300-1600: Primary Sources

Digital Collections

Merchant Fleet of Late Medieval & Tudor England, 1400-1580
This database contains the details of English, Welsh, and Channel Islands merchant ships, and the voyages they undertook, between 1400 and 1580.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Renaissance Exploration Map Collection (Stanford University)
Digital facsimiles of 64 atlases, fully scanned from cover to cover as well as 587 sheet maps, totaling 30,015 pages.

Artstor on JSTOR

A digital library of images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.
Artstor is now available in its new home on JSTOR! When you search JSTOR, you will find Artstor’s 2+ million licensed images and more than 1,700 additional primary source collections alongside JSTOR’s vast collection of books, journal articles, and research reports.

Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources by Scott C. Levi (Editor); Ron Sela (Editor)
Call Number: Click title for online access.

Publication Date: 2009

Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history, covering the 7th through 19th centuries.
China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610 by Matteo Ricci; Louis J. Gallagher (translator)
Call Number: Print Books BX3746.C5 R473 (lower level)

Publication Date: 1953
The Travels of Mendes Pinto by Fernão. Mendes Pinto; Rebecca D. Catz (Translator)
Call Number: Print Books DS7 .P5513 1989 (second floor)

Publication Date: 1989

This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portuguese explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto's odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and a missionary.