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Silk merchant’s handbook
Title
Silk merchant’s handbook.
Created
Florence?, Italy, between 1400 and 1449.
Physical Description
1 volume (10 leaves) : paper ; 248 mm x 175 mm (222 mm x 150 mm)
Language
Italian
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: mercantesca.
Decoration: none.
Binding: 19th-century red velvet over pasteboards, with silk ties.
Manuscript annotations on fol. 1r include "Tessitori de seta" and "Alamanno di Messr Iacopo Salviati."
Transcription by unidentified bookseller available in bibliographical file. Bookseller description available.
In Italian.
Provenance
Autograph of Alamanno di Messer Jacopo Salviati. Autograph of Maffeo d’Armarini. Christie's London sale, 2016 December 1, lot 12. Purchased from Richard Linenthal on T. Kimball Brooker Italian Renaissance Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of notes related to silk manufacture and trade by an Italian silk merchant. Includes notes on prices (in Italy and elsewhere in Europe), weights and measures, sericulture, and the production of good-quality silk, as well as different types of silk to be found in Europe.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
November 04, 2021
References
Silk merchant's handbook. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Silk merchant's handbook. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Handbooks - Italy - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th century.
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