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Milanese quire wrappers with stationers' trademarks

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Still image	Permit needed	Schlosser 640	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

Description

20 prints from 16 blocks (19 sheets) : woodcut; 28 x 40 cm. or smaller folded to 28 x 20 cm. or smaller.

Subject

Genre/Form

Note

Title devised.
Sheets of coarse tan, gray or blue paper illustrated with the trademarks of Milanese stationers, used as wrappers for quires of white writing paper. For facsimiles of the prints and a detailed discussion of the collection, cf. "Some early Milanese paper wrappers," by Leonard B. Schlosser, in A pair on paper / Leonard B. Schlosser, Henry Morris. 1976. p. 44-[68].
Includes wrappers with the trademarks of Giosefo Valle, Ercole Vezolo, G.B. Pellizzone, Seron, Guglielmo de Berti, Francisco Cislago, G.B. Bosso, Carlo Fromento, Giovan de Fideli, C. & A. Belloni, Arigo Valle, Pietro Penna, H. Giusano & B. Belono and G.D. Valle.
Image size: 8 x 7 cm.-14 x 11 cm.
Collection includes 3 half-sheets (1st leaf of wrapper, with trademark); duplicates of 2 wrappers (Giosefo Valle and Seron); and a variant of the Seron wrapper (apparently a reworked block, with legend "Nella bottega di cartaria ala piazza dei mercanti i Milano") with trademark repeated on verso of 2nd leaf.
Most wrappers subsequently used as document folders, with docket names and dates inscribed in a contemporary hand; dates range from 1556 to 1659. One wrapper contains a document, dated 1570, on white paper with watermark of serpent ([7] p.).

Provenance (note)

Provenance: Damiano Muoni, libri ... manoscritti (stamp on the document contained in item [1a]).

Call Number

Schlosser 640

OCLC

NYPG91-F279

Title

Milanese quire wrappers with stationers' trademarks [graphic]

Imprint

[ca. 1550-ca. 1650]

Finding Aids

Detailed descriptions of individual items in this collection are given in the Schlosser Coll. inventory, no. 640 (copy laid in).

Provenance

Provenance: Damiano Muoni, libri ... manoscritti (stamp on the document contained in item [1a]).

Local Subject

Wrapping materials -- Specimens.

Quire wrappers -- Italy -- Milan -- Specimens.

Stationery -- Specimens.

Research Call Number

Schlosser 640