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Printer's mark of Melchiorre Sessa

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Title

Printer's mark of Melchiorre Sessa

Subject

Printers' Marks
Cats
Mice
Book Illustrations

Description

The title page of Preclarum summi in astrorum scientia with the printer's mark of Melchiorre Sessa, which depicts a cat with a mouse in its mouth standing beneath a crown.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Creator

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1506-1549

Source

Original image in: ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Ibn ʻUthmān, -967. Preclarum summi in astrorum scientia (Impressum Venetijs : Impressum per Melchiorem Sessam & Petrum de Rauanis socios, anno d[omi]ni. 1521. die. 18. Iunij), leaf 1r. 1f 31a (Historical Medical Library of The College of Phyicians of Philadelphia)

Publisher

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Date

1521

Language

lat

Type

StillImage

Identifier

1f_31a.1r

Original Format

1 print : woodcut

Physical Dimensions

20 x 14 cm

Citation

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1506-1549, “Printer's mark of Melchiorre Sessa,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 30, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2394.