Die ritterlich vn[d] lobwirdig Rayss des gestrengen vn[d] über all ander weyt erfarnen Ritters vnd Lantfarers Herren Ludowico Vartomans vo[n] Bolonia sagent vo[n] den Landen, Egypto, Syria vo[n] bayden Arabia Persia India un[d] Ethiopia .

Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century, Herr, Michael, -approximately 1550 · 1515 · Augspurg : In Kostung vnd Verlegung des ersamen Hansen Millers · 1 picture

A 1515 German travel account of Lodovico de Varthema's journeys through Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, India and Ethiopia, printed in Augsburg by Hans Miller and translated by Michael Herr for German-speaking readers. The page shows a woodcut-style scene of two robed figures seated beside a flask-and-stool arrangement, with dense black-letter text in columns; a designer might take its compact, hatched linework and blocky Gothic type as models for historical woodcut effects.

Asia -- Description and travel · Africa -- Description and travel

Internet Archive · John Carter Brown Library · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library