JFB: Celebrating Venice
Dublin Core
Title
JFB: Celebrating Venice
Collection Items
Erhard Ratdolt's printer's mark
The printer's mark of Erhard Ratdolt features Mercury holding two serpents entwined in a caduceus form. The star signifies a planet.
The printer’s mark of the Sessa family
The printer’s mark of the Sessa family, depicting a cat with a mouse in its mouth. The Sessa’s were an important family of printers active in Venice between 1505 and 1597.
Aleppo correspondence
Two manuscript letters dated, 29 April 1484 and 19 September 1485, addressed to merchants in Tripoli. (Bell 1484 Al)
Engraving from Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, d. 1497. [Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam] [Mainz : Erhard Reuwich, 1486]. (Bell 1486 fBr)
Hie hebt sich an das puch des edel[e]n Ritters un[d] Landtfarers Marcho Polo.
![Hie hebt sich an das puch des edel[e]n Ritters un[d] Landtfarers Marcho Polo.](https://gallery.lib.umn.edu/files/square_thumbnails/a3ae7dad58e171acf5600130bed39af3.jpg "Hie hebt sich an das puch des edel[e]n Ritters un[d] Landtfarers Marcho Polo.")
Hie hebt sich an das puch des edel[e]n Ritters un[d] Landtfarers Marcho Polo. In dem er schreibt die grossen wunderlichen ding dieser Welt. Sunderlichen von en grossen künigen und keysern die da herschen in denselbigen landen...[Nuremberg…
Aleppo correspondence 2
One of two manuscript letters dated, 29 April 1484 and 19 September 1485, addressed to merchants in Tripoli. (Bell 1484 Al)
Aleppo correspondence 1
One of two manuscript letters dated, 29 April 1484 and 19 September 1485, addressed to merchants in Tripoli. (Bell 1484 Al)
![Questo e ellibbro che tracta di mercata[n]tie & usanze depaesi](https://gallery.lib.umn.edu/files/square_thumbnails/a028f10e72fd9ac3b0ebae3984b18820.jpg "Questo e ellibbro che tracta di mercata[n]tie & usanze depaesi")
