Iohannes Speed

Iohannes Speed (vulgo Iohan Speed; natus anno 1551 vel 1552; mortuus die 28 Iulii 1629) fuit cartographus et rerum gestarum scriptor, primus inter Anglos atlantis tabularum geographicarum divulgator.

Tabula urbis Bedfordiae anno 1611 incisa

Tabula Sinarum anno 1626 incisa

Opera

• 1592 : The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, according to euery family and tribe with the line of Our Sauior Iesus Christ obserued from Adam to the Blessed Virgin Mary
• 1595? : A direction to finde all those names expressed in that large table of genealogies of scripture, lately gathered
• 1601? : A Description of the Civill Warres of England
• 1611 : Historie of Great Britaine
• 1611-1612 : The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (4 voll. Editio Latina, 1616. Versio minuscula, 1619/1620)
• 1616 : A Clowd of Witnesses: and they the holy genealogies of the Sacred Scriptures
• 1627 : A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Iohannem Speed spectant.

• A. Baynton-Williams, "John Speed" apud Mapforum.com
• Tabulae in interrete monstratae

Bibliographia

• Sarah Bendall, "John Speed" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edd. H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2004) Situs venalis
• "John Speed" in Thomas Fuller; P. Austin Nuttall, ed., The History of the Worthies of England (Londinii, 1840. 3 voll. 1 2 3) vol. 1 pp. 277-278
• Nigel Nicolson, "Introduction" in Johan Speed, The Counties of Britain: A Tudor Atlas (Londinii: Thames & Hudson, 1989. ISBN 0-500-25104-5)
• A. F. Pollard, "John Speed" in Dictionary of National Biography edd. Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee. 63 voll., 3 voll. suppl. (Londinii, 1885-1901 ~)
• R. A. Skelton, "Introduction" in John Speed, A prospect of the most famous parts of the world (1966)

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