About This Item
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 October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2394.