African/Black figures in books

Several in Venetian incunables:

• Pius II., Papst: Pii. II. Pontificis Maximi. Historia Rervm Vbiqve Gestarvm Locorvmqve Descriptione Non Finita Asia Minor Incipit, at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00059963?page=9
• Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Christophori Landini Florentini In Q. Oratii Flacci Carmina Interpretationes Incipivnt Foeliciter, at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00054102?page=14,15

Kate Lowe, "Visible Lives: Black Gondoliers and Other Black Africans in Renaissance Venice"

the printer Michel le Noir (1486-1520)

• his device: https://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/lenoir1515.htm
• on his son, also a printer, see: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/619273?journalCode=lq
• https://france1501to1520.djshaw.co.uk/index.php?title=Michel_Le_Noir
• https://www.fulltable.com/vts/d/dev/dibdin/a.htm