Ordini provisioni e dichiarationi intorno alle sete, lavori, e uso di esse cosi nell' opera bianca, come nella tinta e drapperie, e altri particolari al detto essercitio appartenenti : riformate, stabilite, e accommodate per benifitio della cittáa di Bologna ...
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Ordini provisioni e dichiarationi intorno alle sete, lavori, e uso di esse cosi nell' opera bianca, come nella tinta e drapperie, e altri particolari al detto essercitio appartenenti : riformate, stabilite, e accommodate per benifitio della cittáa di Bologna ...
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Bologna : Vittorio Benacci, 1589.
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16 pages
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Italy.
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FAST ACC 272565
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Ordered from Gilhofer & Ranschburg GmbH, D9487, 2021-06-07, Cat. The Sixteenth Century, Part XXXIV, item #4
From dealer's description: "(BOLOGNA – SILK MANUFACTURE & COMMERCE). ORDINI provisioni e dichiarationi intorno alle sete, lavori, & uso di esse, cosi nell’opera bianca, come nella tinta, e drapperie, et altri particolari al detto esserciito appartenenti. Riformate, stabilite, & accomodate per benefitio della Città di Bologna dalla Santità di N.S. Papa Sisto Quin-to di suo moto proprio. Pubblicate in Bologna alli 20. & reiterate alli 21. di Novembre MDLXXXIX. 4to. 16 pages. Title-page within a woodcut border and the arms of pope Sixtus V. Unbound, small marginal tear in the first leaf repaired, but a very fine uncut copy. Bologna, Vittorio Benacci, 1589. FIRST EDITION of these ordonnances regulating the manufacture and trade of silk in the territory of Bologna, at that time belonging to the States of the Church. Indeed, among Sixtus’s V (Felice Per-etti, 1521-1590), first concerns after assuming the papacy, was to optimize industry and trade in the Papal States. In the bull Cum sicut accepimus (May 28, 1586 – Bullarium Romanum, Torino, 1863, vol. VIII, no. XLIX, pp. 711-719) he ordered that mulberry trees had to be planted throughout the States of the Church in all gardens and vineyards, in every field and wood, over all hills and in every valley, whenever no corn was growing (cf. G. Tomasetti, L'arte della seta sotto Sisto V in Roma, in: “Studi e documenti di storia e diritto”, 2, 1881, p. 145). Sixtus V clearly saw the importance and the advantages giving support to the silk industry and trade, which contributed in no small share to the well-being and prosperity of a considerable portion of the working classes of the Papal States. Bologna became a leading silk producer starting in the 15th century thanks to technological and process innovations that brought it to prominence on international markets. The silk production pro-cess took place within the city walls in the hands of merchant-entrepreneurs. Negotiations for the pur-chase of silk cocoons took place in what is now Piazza Galvani. The process was a multi-stage affair involving different facilities, people and methods: filament reeling, in which the cocoons were un-wound; silk throwing, in which the filaments were twisted and wound onto bobbins; the weaving done at home by hundreds of women; and the fabric finishing in artisans’ workshops. Remarkable was also the artificial water distribution system that traces its origin to the 12th century. The system is com-posed of locks (on the Reno and Savena Rivers), canals (Reno, Savena, Moline and Navile) and under-ground conduits known as chiaviche that extended the water network to many zones of the city. The availability of water, united with the level of technology attained by the silk mills (cf. A. Guenzi & C. Poni, Sinergia di due innovazioni: chiaviche e mulini da seta a Bologna, in: “Quaderni storici”, 64, 1987, pp."
From dealer's description: "(BOLOGNA – SILK MANUFACTURE & COMMERCE). ORDINI provisioni e dichiarationi intorno alle sete, lavori, & uso di esse, cosi nell’opera bianca, come nella tinta, e drapperie, et altri particolari al detto esserciito appartenenti. Riformate, stabilite, & accomodate per benefitio della Città di Bologna dalla Santità di N.S. Papa Sisto Quin-to di suo moto proprio. Pubblicate in Bologna alli 20. & reiterate alli 21. di Novembre MDLXXXIX. 4to. 16 pages. Title-page within a woodcut border and the arms of pope Sixtus V. Unbound, small marginal tear in the first leaf repaired, but a very fine uncut copy. Bologna, Vittorio Benacci, 1589. FIRST EDITION of these ordonnances regulating the manufacture and trade of silk in the territory of Bologna, at that time belonging to the States of the Church. Indeed, among Sixtus’s V (Felice Per-etti, 1521-1590), first concerns after assuming the papacy, was to optimize industry and trade in the Papal States. In the bull Cum sicut accepimus (May 28, 1586 – Bullarium Romanum, Torino, 1863, vol. VIII, no. XLIX, pp. 711-719) he ordered that mulberry trees had to be planted throughout the States of the Church in all gardens and vineyards, in every field and wood, over all hills and in every valley, whenever no corn was growing (cf. G. Tomasetti, L'arte della seta sotto Sisto V in Roma, in: “Studi e documenti di storia e diritto”, 2, 1881, p. 145). Sixtus V clearly saw the importance and the advantages giving support to the silk industry and trade, which contributed in no small share to the well-being and prosperity of a considerable portion of the working classes of the Papal States. Bologna became a leading silk producer starting in the 15th century thanks to technological and process innovations that brought it to prominence on international markets. The silk production pro-cess took place within the city walls in the hands of merchant-entrepreneurs. Negotiations for the pur-chase of silk cocoons took place in what is now Piazza Galvani. The process was a multi-stage affair involving different facilities, people and methods: filament reeling, in which the cocoons were un-wound; silk throwing, in which the filaments were twisted and wound onto bobbins; the weaving done at home by hundreds of women; and the fabric finishing in artisans’ workshops. Remarkable was also the artificial water distribution system that traces its origin to the 12th century. The system is com-posed of locks (on the Reno and Savena Rivers), canals (Reno, Savena, Moline and Navile) and under-ground conduits known as chiaviche that extended the water network to many zones of the city. The availability of water, united with the level of technology attained by the silk mills (cf. A. Guenzi & C. Poni, Sinergia di due innovazioni: chiaviche e mulini da seta a Bologna, in: “Quaderni storici”, 64, 1987, pp."
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272565