Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
An accountant in spectacles shown half length sitting behind a desk as he studies the open on the table; another "Day Book" is propped up behind him on the right, beneath a stack of invoices on a spindle on a rail. On the wall behind a bird cage are posted two sheets: "Coals for distr[...] poor ..." and "Ship Argus ..." Also on the desk is an inkwell; the pen is poked behind his right ear
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Birdcages, Business people, and Offices
Master of Petrarch, active approximately 1515-approximately 1522, printmaker
Published / Created:
[after 1531]
Call Number:
Print01022
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Restrike date derived from original publication date., Place of publication supplied by curator., Originally published in M.T. Cicero, Officia, Augsburg: Heinrich Steyner, 1531., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., In pencil lower left: Bloodletting., and In pencil lower right: H. Burgmair 1508. [Dubious attribution?]
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Phlebotomy, Accounting, Bowls (Tableware)., Coins, and Sick persons
