Document, Giovanni Contarini to Donato Soranzo

Letter is dated 1402 and was sent from the city of Venice to Damascus, Syria. A translation of the letter lists the author as Giovanni Contarini (son of Nicolo) and the recipient as his cousin Donato Soranzo. The letter discusses a duke damming a river and it causing damage to bridges and buildings in Venice, a price on the head of Lord Mantua for crimes, and news of an earthquake and evidence of possible tsunamis in Gustiza reported by the Venetian admiral of the Adriatic Sea.

In Collection:

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Creator

• Contarini, Giovanni

Contributor

• Soranzo, Donato

Subject

• Earthquakes
• Natural disasters
• Buildings
• Politics and government
• Crime

Language

• lat

Identifier

• Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.7

Date created

• August 30, 1402

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 1 page ; 22.5 x 30 cm

Alternative title

• Venice letter
• Letter, Venice to Damascus, 1402

Geographic coverage

• Syria--Damascus
• Italy--Venice

Coordinates

• 45.43713, 12.33265
• 33.5102, 36.29128

Additional physical characteristics

• Letter written in pen and brown (possibly iron gall) ink on linen chain-and-laid, medium weight, cream-coloured paper with watermark.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Provenance

• The letter was donated to UVic by Brian Pollick in November 2018.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• personal correspondence
• manuscripts (documents)
• letters (correspondence)
• transcripts
• correspondence

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2018-072

Fonds title

• Early Documents collection

Fonds identifier

• SC577

Is referenced by

• Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/doc-lat-7.php
• Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/early-documents-collection-2

Date digitized

• November 2021

Technical note

• Scanned on Betterlight/TTI at 600 DPI Tiff (1/20; 246; tone copy4; camera height 650) by PD. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/vsjb-q963

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