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Title
Writing tables [manuscript], 1580?.
Description
24 leaves ; 145 x 104 mm
Associated name
Krause, Jakob, 1526 or 1527-1585, binder.
Material base
Manuscript on coated vellum.
Note
Manuscript notes in writing tables include, in Italian, a list of legal documents (with items dated 1630, 1645, 1663), mathematical instructions and problems (some dated 1734 and 1737), and sketches. Some of the drawings are partially or mostly erased.
Notes are made by stylus and pen and ink. Evidence of erasure on some leaves.
Number "338" written at the top of front cover and verso of second front endleaf.
Binding includes manuscript waste.
According to Sotheby's (London) catalogue of November 7, 2002, "The fine German Renaissance binding . . . has been attributed to Jakob Krause who was active in Dresden during the last quarter of the sixteenth century. He worked predominantly for the Elector Augustus of Saxony (one of the foremost patrons of the Renaissance). The surviving entries in the book are however in Italian, so it may have been presented to a foreign ruler or ambassador."
Notes are made by stylus and pen and ink. Evidence of erasure on some leaves.
Number "338" written at the top of front cover and verso of second front endleaf.
Binding includes manuscript waste.
According to Sotheby's (London) catalogue of November 7, 2002, "The fine German Renaissance binding . . . has been attributed to Jakob Krause who was active in Dresden during the last quarter of the sixteenth century. He worked predominantly for the Elector Augustus of Saxony (one of the foremost patrons of the Renaissance). The surviving entries in the book are however in Italian, so it may have been presented to a foreign ruler or ambassador."
Binding information
Bound in contemporary calfskin, block-stamped in gold with gold tooling, sewn on four double-raised cords with fore-edge flap attached with silver clasps held together with modern copper stylus.
Provenance
Formerly Folger MS Add 1156.
Source of acquisition
Acquired from Sotheby's (London), 7 November 2002, lot 41.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.
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Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.480
Genre/form
Manuscripts, Italian.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscript waste.
Writing tables (Paper)
Manuscripts (documents)
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscript waste.
Writing tables (Paper)
Manuscripts (documents)
Place of creation/publication
Germany -- Dresden.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.480
Folger accession
MS Add 1156