Letter written by an Anonymous Venetian and reproduced in flysheets in Europe

Ambraseys (2009) suggests that the earliest information about the 1546 CE Earthquake comes from a letter written to a nobleman in Venice and published the same year in Wittenberg. He adds that the original letter was written in Italian, probably originating from a town on the coast of Palestine. This letter, according to Ambraseys (2009) seems to have been the basic source of information for a number of contemporary flysheets in Europe that spread the news of the earthquake in Jerusalem of Thursday noon, 14 January 1546.