German Business Accounts used as Book Bindings
Scope and Contents
26 sheets of miscellaneous pages from German business accounts and other documents, c.1600-60, cut to uniform size and used in book bindings. There are also 5 parchment scraps from a possibly 15th century service book, some with traces of an illuminated initial, removed from book bindings by Jack Lunzer, 1982.
Dates
- Creation: 1401-1660 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 envelope(s) (1 envelope)
Language of Materials
German
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented by Jack Lunzer, 1994.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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