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Milanese quire wrappers with stationers' trademarks
- Title
- Milanese quire wrappers with stationers' trademarks [graphic]
- Publication
- [ca. 1550-ca. 1650]
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 |
Details
- 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
- Trademarks – Italy – Milan – 16th century.
- Trademarks – Italy – Milan – 17th century.
- Wrapping papers (Paper) – Italy – Milan – 16th century.
- Wrapping papers (Paper) – Italy – Milan – 17th century.
- 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