16th-century books

sacred text of the Maya

scientific manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci

thumb|250px|Portrait of Marguerite de Navarre|Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, attributed to [[Jean Clouet, .]] 250px|thumb|''The Gentleman's Spur catching in the Sheet. Illustration from an 1894 edition of The Tales of the Heptameron. The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days like The Decameron'', but at Marguerite’s death it was com

thumb|260px|A 17th-century merchant family, painting by Andrei Ryabushkin (1894) thumb|A School in Muscovite Russia, painting by Boris Kustodiev (1908)

thumb|"The Spy Zanbur Bringing Mahiyya to the City of Tawariq", from the Akbar Hamzanama

The Commentariolus (Little Commentary) is Nicolaus Copernicus's brief outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe. After further long development of his theory, Copernicus published the mature version in 1543 in his landmark work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).

book by Leonardo da Vinci

literary work

Chronicle of pre-Columbian Guatemala

English translation of the Bible by Myles Coverdale, published in 1535; the first complete Modern English translation of the Christian Bible

manuscript on Aztec history from the late XVIth century

Renaissance songbook of Portuguese secular music from the 16th century

historical document

hagiography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Rauðskinna (English: Red Skin), also known as The Book of Power or as the bible of all wizards, is a legendary book about black magic. alleged to have been buried with Gottskálk the cruel, Gottskálk grimmi Nikulásson of Hólar, after he stole it from Chief and wizard Jon from Svalbard. It’s said his grandfather, Thorkell had written. The subject of the book, was to learn to master magic to such a degree as to control Satan. The book has been the subject of legend and folklore and desired by practitioners of galdr. One such legend is when the galdr master Loftur Þorsteinsson (Galdra-Loftur) trie

first printed East Slavic Bible (1517–1519)

thumb|right|upright|Adam and Eve being cast out from the Garden of Eden in the Dispersed Falnama thumb|right|upright|Coffin of Ali|Imam 'Ali from the Dispersed Falnama|alt=Refer to caption The Persian word Falnama () covers two forms of bibliomancy (fortune-telling using a book) used historically in Iran, Turkey, and India. Quranic Falnamas were sections at the end of Quran manuscripts used for fortune-telling based on a grid. In the 16th century, Falnama manuscripts were introduced that used a different system; individuals performed purification rituals, opened a random page in the book and i

renaissance songbook of Portuguese music

book by Ötemish Hajji

political philosophy book written by Jean Bodin

Mexican manuscript

16th-century Latin manuscript

literary work

manuscript of Nicolaus Copernicus

catalogue summarising part of Ferdinand Columbus's library

thumb|A scene from the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s Freydal Illuminated manuscript: Freydal jousts with Veit von Wolkenstein (fol.133} Freydal is an uncompleted illustrated prose narrative commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in the early 16th century. It was intended to be a romantic allegorical account of Maximilian's own participation in a series of jousting tournaments in the guise of the tale's eponymous hero, Freydal. In the story, Freydal takes part in the tournaments to prove that he is worthy to marry a princess, who is a fictionalised representation of Maximilian's late

textbook

thumb|Titlepage of the 1553 edition thumb|Woodcut illustration by [[Leonhard Beck]] Theuerdank (Teuerdank, Tewerdanck, Teuerdannckh) is a poetic work the composition of which is attributed to the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I (1486-1519). Written in German, it tells the fictionalised and romanticised story of Maximilian's journey to marry Mary of Burgundy in 1477. The published poem was accompanied by 118 woodcuts designed by the artists Leonhard Beck, Hans Burgkmair, Hans Schäufelein and others. Its newly designed blackletter typeface was influential.