Franciscus Drakus

Effigies Francisci Draki a Marco Gheeraerts post annum 1590 picta, apud Abbatiam de Boclanda ostentata.

AUXILIO DIVINO - SIC PARVIS MAGNA.

Franciscus Drakus, Anglice Sir Francis Drake (natus circa 1549 Tavistochiae; mortuus prope Portum Bellum Panamae die 28 Ianuarii 1596) fuit cursarius navigatorque, primus Anglorum qui orbem terrarum circumnavigaverit.

Circumnavigationem anno 1577 suscepit, die 26 Septembris 1580 perfecit.

Bibliographia

Fontes fere coaevi

• 1582 : Carolus Clusius, Aliquot notae in Garciae Aromatum historiam; Descriptiones nonnullarum stirpium, et aliarum exoticarum rerum, quae à ... Francisco Drake ... observatae sunt (Antverpiae: Plantin) Textus apud e-Rara (Textus apud Google Books) apud Internet Archive
• c. 1587 : Vera descriptio expeditionis nauticae Francisci Draci Angli, cognitis aurati, circa 1587 [tabula geographica manu scripta, Drake-Mellon map nuncupata]. imago
• 1588 : Walterus Bygges, Expeditio Francisci Draki equitis Angli in Indias Occidentales anno MDLXXXV. Leydae: apud Fr. Raphelengium Textus Editio 1590 Editio interretialis Editio apud The Latin Library versio Francogallica 1588 Versio Theodisca 1589 Versio Anglica:
  • 1589 : Walter Bygges; Thomas Cates, ed., A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage wherein were taken the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena and Saint Augustine. Londinii: Roger Ward Textus
  • 1589 : Walter Bygges; Thomas Cates, ed., A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage where in were taken the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine. Londinii: Richard Field Textus cum tabulis? editio interretialis; alia; Editio 1596 editio 1652
• 1589 : Ephemeris expeditionis Norreysii & Draki in Lusitaniam. Londinii, 1589 Textus apud Internet Archive editio 1590
• 1589 : "The first voyage attempted and set foorth by ... M. Francis Drake ... to Nombre de Dios ... 1572" (p. 594 sqq.), "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea, and there hence about the whole globe of the Earth" (post p. 643 insertam), in Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by sea or over land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500. yeeres. 1a ed. Londinii: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie
• c. 1595 : Iodocus Hondius, Vera totius expeditionis nauticae descriptio D. Franc. Draci ... [tabula geographica]. Amstelodami? Imago apud Communia
• 1598-1600 : "A briefe relation of the notable seruice performed by Sir Francis Drake ... in the Road of Cadiz ... 1587", "The first and second discouery of the gulfe of California", "The first voyage attempted and set foorth by ... M. Francis Drake ... to Nombre de Dios ... 1572", "A summarie and true discourse of sir Francis Drakes West Indian voyage ... 1585", "The voyage truely discoursed, made by sir Francis Drake and sir Iohn Hawkins ... 1595", "The two famous voyages happily perfourmed round about the world, by Sir Francis Drake, and M. Thomas Candish Esquire ... The voyage of M. Iohn Winter into the South sea by the Streight of Magellan ... by Edward Cliffe (etc.)" in Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by sea or over-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres. 2a ed. 3 voll. Londinii: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker voll. 1-2 vol. 3
• saec. XVII ineunte? : Nicola van Sype, La [heroike] enterprinse faict par le Signeur Draeck d'avoir cirquit toute la terre [tabula geographica]. Antverpiae? Imago
• 1626 : Philip Nichols; Francis Drake (nepos)^(en), ed., Sir Francis Drake revived. Londinii: Bourne, 1626 Titulus huius editionis
• 1628 : Francis Drake (nepos)^(en), ed., The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake. Londinii: Bourne, 1628 Textus; Textus apud Bibliotheca Congressus; Editio interretialis
• 1652-1653 : Philip Nichols, Francis Fletcher et al.; R. D., ed., Sir Francis Drake revived; The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake; A summarie and true discourse; A full relation of another voyage into the West Indies. Londinii: Bourne, 1652-1653 fasc. 1 i fasc. 1 ii fasc. 2 fasc. 3 fasc. 4

Editiones fontium

• Mary Frear Keeler, ed., Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1585-86. Londinii, 1981 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
• W. D. Cooley, ed., Sir Francis Drake his Voyage, 1595, by Thomas Maynarde, together with the Spanish account of Drake's attack on Puerto Rico. Londinii: Hakluyt Society, 1849 Textus apud Monacenses
• Zelia Nuttall, ed., New Light on Drake: a collection of documents relating to his voyage of circumnavigation. Londinii: Hakluyt Society, 1914 Textus apud Internet Archive
• Patrick O'Brian et al., edd., The Drake Manuscript. Londinii: André Deutsch, 1996 (editio fac-simile manuscripti Histoire naturelle des Indes)
• W. S. W. Vaux, ed., The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake ... collated with an unpublished manuscript of Francis Fletcher. Londinii: Hakluyt Society, 1854 Textus apud Internet Archive
• R. B. Wernham, ed., The expedition of Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake to Spain and Portugal, 1589 (Navy Records Society). Londinii: Temple Smith, 1988

Eruditio

• Kenneth R. Andrews, Drake's voyages: a re-assessment of their place in Elizabethan maritime expansion. Novi Eboraci: Scribner, 1968 exemplar mutuabile
• Laurence Bergreen, In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire. Custom House, 2021. ISBN 978-0062875358 recensio huius operis
• Julian S. Corbett, Drake and the Tudor navy, with a history of the rise of England as a maritime power. 2 voll. Londinii: Longmans Green, 1898 vol. 1 vol. 2 apud Internet Archive
• James B. Davidson, "On some points in natural history first made known by Sir Francis Drake" in Western Antiquary vol. 4 (1884/1885) pp. 134-137
• Harry Kelsey, "Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edd. H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2004) Situs venalis
• Harry Kelsey, Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate. Novo Portu: Yale University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-300-08463-4
• Hans P. Kraus, Sir Francis Drake: A Pictorial Biography. Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1970 Editio interretialis
• David Beers Quinn, Sir Francis Drake as seen by his contemporaries: an essay. Providentiae: John Carter Brown Library, 1996 Textus apud Internet Archive
• John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake. Londinii: Barrie & Jenkins, 1990 (Paginae selectae editionis recentioris apud Google Books)
• Norman J. W. Thrower, "Drake on the Pacific Coast of North America" in Cecil H. Clough, P. E. H. Hair, edd., The European Outthrust and Encounter: The First Phase c.1400-c.1700: essays in tribute to David Beers Quinn (Liverpolii: Liverpool University Press, 1994) pp. 167-190 (paginae selectae apud Google Books)
• Norman J. W. Thrower, Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580: Essays Commemorating the Quadricentennial of Drake's Circumnavigation of the Earth. Berkeleiae: University of California Press, 1984 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)

Nexus externi

• The Drake Exploration Society
  • "The society's research"
• John Thrower, "Some Botanical Discoveries Made on Francis Drake's World Voyage"
• Martha Doerr Toppin, "Nova Albion Revealed: Drake’s claim of California celebrated by Hakluyt and Hondius"