This edition of Aesop's fables and Brandt's collection of fables and moral sayings was originally printed in 1501. The little illustrations on just about every page are really well done and quiet intriguing to look at. I have not found an English translation of this specific work yet.
Google translated page on the edition
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The Loseley Manuscripts
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Manifestations of Discontent in Germany on the Eve of the Reformation,by Gerald Strauss
Its a collection of writings from the period of 1430-1530, and includes sermons, poems and proclamations about a variety of topics. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in Early Modern Germany, it contains some real gems.
But now for the fun quote from the book,
From the Chronicles of Sebastian Franck, 1531, p 215-218
Concerning the Arrival of Two Plagues in Germany in the Time of Emperor Maximilian. To Wit: The Terribile Affliction Called "The French Disease" And the Destructive Landsknechte
"The same emperor's reign also witnessed the arrival of that useless breed of men called Landsknecht, a plague upon our land which invades us uncalled for and uninvited, seeking and causing war and visiting misfortune upon us all. Landsknecht are not citizens who respond to their lord's call to war. Such citizens are proper soldiers and loyal militiamen. They do what they are obliged to do out of a sense of duty and obedience, not gain. For Landsknecht, on the other hand, I find no excuse or justification, seeing that they are an unchristian, cursed tribe whose trade consists of gouging, stabbing, pillaging, burning, murdering, gambling, drinking, whoring, blaspheming, willfully killing husbands and fathers, persecuting peasents in war and peace, stripping fields and demanding tributes. They are harmful not only to others, but also to themselves. In truth, they are a plague and pestilence on the whole world. "
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The port and trade of early Elizabethan London
Sample listing:
781. Edward of Milton (60) William Harison; Antwerp
[f. 241b] John Jackman: 24 cwt Castile soap, 150 lbs ginger £29 5s (31 Aug 1568). William Cockin: 600 foin tails, 20 mantles foin potes, 33 pair 'vents' £28 10s (1 Sept). James Harvie: 3½ doz. whip-saws, 1 doz. tenonsaws £5 11s 8d. William Hobbs: 974 ells hair tapestry, 16 pcs white blanket, 3½ doz. sealed carpets, 2 doz. blue lince, 1 last rape oil £63 5s. John Spencer: 100 bundles brown paper £3 6s 8d. William Gifford: 6 cwt unwrought flax £3 6s 8d. John Flower: 16 cwt estrige wool £13 16s 8d. Edward Bright: 8 doz. carpenter's saws, 8½ cwt iron pans £8. Thomas Gardiner: 1 cwt gunpowder, 50 bundles brown paper, 4 cwt aniseed, 200 lbs pepper £25 6s 8d. William Towerson: 750 ells wool tapestry, 16 doz. Ghentish carpets, 1 doz. cushion cloths, 6 cwt feathers £72. Roger Warfild: 2 brls argol, 1 cwt candy, 400 lbs matches, 18 cwt soap, 6 cwt almonds, 100 bundles brown paper, 6 cwt starch £43 10s. Alexander Sherington: 3 bales Ulm fustian £45. Thomas Brasie: 106 pcs unwatered camlet, 2 bales Ulm fustian £151. William Colles: 48 cwt madder, 8 cwt hops £36. Edmund Smyth: 2 bales Ulm fustian £30. Robert Taylor: 24 cwt madder, 6 cwt hops £19. John Borne: 10 doz. lbs pack thread, 6 grs thread points, 3 doz. coarse crewel pieces, 1 doz. lbs inkle, 4 doz. thou. pins, 1½ thou. thimbles, 12 thou. awl blades, 3 doz. lbs counters, 1 grs coarse hour glasses £16 10s. John Lambert: 72 cwt flax £48. John Car: 1 half-brl small nails, 4 hd iron plates, 8 doz. small candle plates £9 6s 8d. James Harvie: 17 cwt black latten £11 6s 8d. William Perrie: 90 lbs nutmegs £15. Robert Brook: 6 cwt hops £3. Nicholas Hewet: 13 brls rape oil, 12 pair andirons with 12 tongs 12 fireshovels, 18 cwt ton-flax £34 (2 Sept). William Hewet: 13 brls rape oil £16. Robert Exton: 5 cwt madder, 3 nests empty chests, 40 Turnhout ticks £18 13s 4d. Arthur Hall: 1 ton 'ames' iron, 1 half-brl head nails, 100 doubles, 4 cwt fireshovel plates £13. Roger Knot: 16 cwt battery £32. Thomas Eaton: 15 grs halfpennyware glasses, 3 grs thread-lace, 3 doz. thou. pins, 1 doz. lbs curtain rings, 6 thou. awl blades, 5 doz. lbs inkle, 2 doz. crewel pieces, 1 brl latten £29 1s 8d. Ancelm Becket: 6 cwt flax £6. Thomas Castlin: 2 packs flax £16. Hugh Bradborne: 90 cakes resin £15. Anthony Fytton: 4 brls yellow ochre £2 13s 4d. Richard Billam: 18 Turnhout ticks £14 13s 4d. Roland Erlington: 120 doz. thou. pins £20. Henry Smyth: 63 lbs Spanish silk, 12 doz. thou. pins £65 (3 Sept). Phillip Watkins: 30 lbs satin silk, 80 lbs ferret silk £66 13s 4d. William Sherington: 50 lbs ferret silk, 80 ells sarcenet £34 3s 4d. John Pasfield: 7 cwt iron wire £11 13s 4d. John Spencer: 50 bundles brown paper, 40 lbs thread £2 6s 8d. Francis Wootton: 60 ells sarcenet, 30 yds satin £23 10s. Robert Taylor: 3 pcs stammel £30. William Martin: 192 butts thread, 10 pcs watered camlet £19 3s 4d. Edmund Hugan: 80 half-pcs Genoa fustian £26 13s 4d (4 Sept). John Taylor: 3 bales Ulm fustian £45. Geoffrey Goffe: 250 ells hair and flax tapestry, 8 doz. lince £14 6s 8d. Robert Lence: 6 cwt wrought flax £6. Sir William Chester: 75 cwt madder £50.
Lots of interesting textile items in this list, like what is ferret silk?
If you are looking for a record of a particular commodity, you can look it up in the Commodity List and use that to find the item you are looking for.
A list of their 16th century documents
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Here's his commonplace book, containing letters, verses, writings on chivalric offices, heraldry, etc. Its online at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Digital Library.
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_cro
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MS. Lat. misc. c. 66
Commonplace book of Humphrey Newton (1466-1536), of Pownall, Cheshire, in Latin and English
15th and 16th centuries
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scw
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A calendar calculator for any year,
Julian Calendar calculator,
And Easter calendars for any century using the Julian calendar
Sarum Hours 1503-1505 Calendar from Copenhagen Kongelige Bibliotek This site also has other manuscripts and some great tutorials on how the religious calendar was structured.
History of Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents A lovely Wiki with lots of links to primary document sources and transcriptions.
Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern Germany A page of links to other compilations of manuscripts and deep sources.
One of the sources I've been playing around with is this one, Reformationsgeschichtliche Handschriften A combination effort between the University of Colonge and the Luther archives. Lots of letters and different handwriting. Very interesting.
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I just found this tonight, its a bound volume of correspondence of Hans Rieter from 1543 to 1583. It includes a description of the the siege of Landrecie with Emperor Karl V. in 1543 and a pen-and-ink drawing of the battlefield, as well as a description the lake battle of Lepanto. They literally just took the letters and bound them together, so the folds are still there, as well as the directions, etc. And the hand writing is really interesting!
Its also bound in an old piece of written velum, looks to be from a church work, and the method of binding used is quite clear to see. Such an interesting primary source find!
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One of those loose ends left over is the finishing and posting of the documentation. I had a bad case of food poisoning a few days before the competition which ruined my plans of having totally finished documentation. So I'm now in the process of finishing it up and putting it up on the web.
The research and recipes for the three types of Lebkuchen from Sabina Welserin, recipe numbers 151, 163 and 164 are now online.
3 Different Types of Lebkuchen from Sabina Welserin's Cookbook, circa 1553
In 1532, Christoph Scheurl, a Nurnberg jurist and diplomat, wrote in his yearly account book that for New Years he received lebkuchen from his two aunts who were nuns in different cloisters. His Aunt Apollonia's were thin and delicate like "sparkling gold leaves" His Aunt Barbara's were “thicker and heavy”.
I decided to recreate, as best I could, the three period recipes for Lebkuchen from Sabina Welserin’s cookbook and see if any of them resulted in a thin kind and a thick kind. This involved some in depth research into the weights and measures used in period and determining their modern metric equivalents. Recipes are included.
You can download it from here or download the PDF directly
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http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI08018b
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI08018b
Found on Bildindex at
Orte / N / Nürnberg / Sammlungen / Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Bibliothek / sonstiger Bestand, nach Sachgebieten
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Woot! We have cookies!
The cookie stamps worked better than my cookie mold, but it was a shortbread cookie mold, not one designed for lebkuchen.
So now I'm thinking of purchasing s springerle mold from these folks, the second coat of arms, number 6370, as it appears to be the most similar to the extant molds in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.. The molds on this page are also a possibility. I really like the three at the end.
(The path the the molds on bildindex is Orte / N / Nürnberg / Sammlungen / Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Kunstgewerbe / Hausgerät / Backgerät / Backmodeln / ab 1445)
I'm going to try 164 today, and bake it tomorrow.
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The texture of the dough as you are working it is really interesting. First its hot and sticky, like molten plastic, then it sets up quickly to a hard dough, so you have to work quickly once you have it out of the bowl and onto the floured board. I'm glad I made a half batch, as I'm not sure I could process a whole batch by myself before the dough sets up like concrete.
Now on to recipe 163, as soon as I get some mace spice and rosewater.
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Never thought I'd be converting American bushels circa 1850 to metric to find out how much a Vierling from 1553 might be worth. Its been an interesting study in measurements to say the least! I'll be publishing it in March, after KASF.
The good news is that with the new amounts of honey, sugar and flour: the recipe works!
The bad news? The spices. I've posted the ingredient amounts below, and let me just tell you, that much clove and cardamom in one batch of cookies is horrible! Blech and nasty!
( Details under the cut )
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Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg By Thomas Max Safley
On Page 181 it has a list created in 1572 of what an orphanage of 200 children would be estimated to cost. It includes the amount of linen and other fabrics needed and the cost per ell for each, as well as food costs and costs for sewing, cobbler and food.
Its all itemized, so you can see what the orphan's diet would have been like.
Nicest part? The book is all in English!
This one's going on the ILL list for sure!
I think this recipe is going to require a bit more work than I was anticipating....
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In honor of the balls that were held this last weekend, and the ones that will be held this next weekend, here's a collection of dancers and musicians.
Geschlechtertanz im Tanzhaus von Augsburg
Dieses Bild: 015534
Kunstwerk: Malerei-Holz ; Tafelbild ; Augsburg
Dokumentation: 1490 ; 1510 ; Augsburg ; Deutschland ; Schwaben ; Maximiliansmuseum ; 3821
Full: http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
Detail:http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/s
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
The same hall in the 1590's
Geschlechtertanz im Tanzhaus von Augsburg
Dieses Bild: 015533
Kunstwerk: Malerei-Holz ; Tafelbild ; Schelhas Abraham
Dokumentation: 1590 ; 1595 ; Augsburg ; Deutschland ; Schwaben ; Maximiliansmuseum ; 3822
Full:http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/se
Detail: http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
Commemerative Wedding Bowl of the Paller-Imhoff family with tournament representation and wedding procession around the outside. 1572
Dieses Bild: 015499
Kunstwerk: Malerei-Holz ; Gefäße Haushalt ; Schüssel ; Augsburg
Dokumentation: 1572 ; 1572 ; Augsburg ; Deutschland ; Schwaben ; Maximiliansmuseum ; 10349
Anmerkungen: Dm 58 ; "Kurzweil viel ohn' Maß und Ziel", Augsbuger Patrizier zwischen Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit (Ausst.Kat.), Augsburg 1994.
Full:http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/se
Center Tournament Scene: http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
Detail of rim:
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
Fuchs;Hase
Hase spielt Füchsen zum Tanz auf
Dieses Bild: 005376
Kunstwerk: Buchmalerei ; Illustrationszyklus Bibel ; Miniatur ; Böhmen
Dokumentation: 1432 ; 1435 ; Wien ; Österreich ; Wien ; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ; cod. 1175 ; fol. 398v
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
A couple at the dance
Tanz
Dieses Bild: 006764
Kunstwerk: Federzeichnung koloriert ; Illustrationszyklus Didaktik ; Miniatur ; Konstanz
Dokumentation: 1479 ; 1479 ; Wien ; Österreich ; Wien ; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ; cod. 3049 ; fol. 166v
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
Fiddler and dancer, 1300-1350 (I love the energy in this one)
Fidler und Tänzerin
Dieses Bild: 007526
Kunstwerk: Buchmalerei ; Illustrationszyklus Recht ; Randillustration ; Italien(?)
Dokumentation: 1300 ; 1350 ; Graz ; Österreich ; Steiermark ; Universitätsbibliothek ; cod. 32 ; fol. 106v
Anmerkungen: Seckau Chorherrenstift
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
Dance Festival
Tanzfest;Kurfürsten
Dieses Bild: 014528
Kunstwerk: Wandmalerei profan
Dokumentation: 1480 ; 1500 ; Zvikov ; Tschechien ; Burg
Anmerkungen: 600x500 ; Tanzsaal ; O-Wand
Full:http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/se
Detail: http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/i
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Yes, women most certainly did wear keys on their belts, but I'm not sure kampfrau would have. I've looked through my kampfrau artwork and haven't found any that showed them with keys, but given their nomadic lifestyle I'd be surprised if they were actually wearing them. I've included below a small selection of online images of women wearing keys on their belts, as well as a few examples of period keys. For more key pictures I recommend going to your nearest good art library (or friend who has a copy) and looking at the German Single-leaf Woodcuts 1500-1550, there are lots in there.
However, there are plenty of pictures with town women wearing keys, and Textiler Hausrat (in the groups Files section, Files > Textiler Hausrat Translations > Women's Accessories , file name is 6.4 Gurtelutensilien)
It has this to say about women and keys:
From Textiler Hausrat, Kleidung und Haustextilien in Nurnberg von
1500 – 1650 by Jutta Zander-Seidel, pages 145 - 149, Translation
by Katherine Barich
6.4 Gurtelutensilien: Beutel - Messer – Schlüssel – Nadelbänd
"In the middle of the century, references can be found to hanging
purses (hängende Beutel). (418) Knives and bunches of keys became
a specific iconographic representation in middle class portraits.
As seen in the picture of the wife of Erhard Maler by Georg Pencz
and also in the full length portrait of Elsbeth Lochmann by Tobias
Stimmer, they carry these symbols of their domestic circle with
self confidence, (Illustrations 137, 138) while in the second half
of the 16th century the usefulness of the utensils takes second
place to their decorative value. Bags, cutlery and keys were a
part of the appropriate "portrait clothing" which included as well
a sleeved bodice, skirt and decorated apron, which only sometimes
left its origin of the workaday middle class world (Illustration
51); then the fashion wound down and disappeared entirely in the
17th century when the middle class tried to increase their
connection to the nobility by wearing similar styles. In the place
of these utensils appeared gloves, specialties (Fächern) and
decorated handkerchiefs as are seen as attributes in noble’s
portraits, as well as the return of the one piece gown into
fashion. (Illustration 108, 139)"
Here are a collection of 15 century keys from Bildindex (found at Orte / M / München / Sammlungen / Öffentliche Sammlungen / Bayerisches Nationalmuseum / Kunstgewerbe / Sonstiges Metall / Profanes Gerät / Türklopfer )
Small image
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI02321f
Big image
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI02321f
Pictures of women with keys:
Amorous Peasants by Albrecht Durer, (1484-1499)
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/durer/2/11/1/15
Seated woman by Albrecth Durer, 1514
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/durer/2/11/4/06
Verspottung Ijobs;Vertreibung der Herden Ijobs
Dieses Bild: 002069
Kunstwerk: Tafelmalerei ; Flügelaltar ; Brixen
Dokumentation: 1515 ; 1525 ; Innsbruck ; Österreich ; Tirol ; Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum ; IN 75
-Full view of woman
http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/im
-Belt detail showing keys, knife and purse
http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/im
Begegnung an der Goldenen Pforte
Hl. Anna
Dieses Bild: 002437
Kunstwerk: Tafelmalerei ; Flügelaltar ; Südtirol
Dokumentation: 1514 ; 1514 ; Meran ; Italien ; Südtirol ; Städtisches Museum ; IN 27
-Keys, rosary and I think a purse hanging off of her belt.
http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/im
-Another example of a period key
Schlüssel
Dieses Bild: 003700
Kunstwerk: Original , Eisenware ; Schlüssel
Dokumentation: 1500 ; 1550 ; Bozen ; Italien ; Südtirol ; Lauben 17, ehem. bischöflicher Amtssitz Madonnenapotheke Dr. Liebl ; privat
http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/im
Heimsuchung Mariens
Dieses Bild: 004689
Kunstwerk: Tafelmalerei ; Flügelaltar ; Taig Sebastian ; Süddeutsch
Dokumentation: 1518 ; 1522 ; Nördlingen ; Deutschland ; Stadtmuseum
-Keys, purse and other things hanging off of a womans belt.
http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/im
Heimsuchung Mariens
Dieses Bild: 009895
Kunstwerk: Wandmalerei ; Innenfresko rechte Seitenwand ; Slowenien
Dokumentation: 1504 ; 1504 ; Sv. Primos ; Slowenien ; Filialkirche Hll. Primus und Felicianus
-Purse and keys
http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/im
Boys and men wore keys too.
Ecce Homo
Dieses Bild: 011945
Kunstwerk: Tafelmalerei ; Flügelaltar Jakobusaltar ; Slowakei ; Jo:19:004-016 , Lk:23:022-025
Dokumentation: 1508 ; 1517 ; Levoca ; Slowakei ; Pfarrkirche St. Jakob
-Picture of a boy with a key (and he's wearing the cutest red waffenrock)
http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/im
Kupferbemessung
Dieses Bild: 000153
Kunstwerk: Aquarell ; Schwazer Bergbuch ; Miniatur ; Kolber Jörg , Lässl Ludwig ; Tirol
Dokumentation: 1556 ; 1556 ; Innsbruck ; Österreich ; Tirol ; Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum ; Cod. Dipl. 856 ; fol. 168r
-Man wearing keys on his belt
http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/im
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Today I went and had a look at the original transcription of the recipe in New High German, which is the equivilent of Shakespearian English in German. http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~glonin
For one thing, the actual amounts of the ingredients seem to be quite a bit different. Katherine Barich helped me with a few of the harder words and looked some stuff up for me in her cool dictionaries.
The original, in New High German, with lots of misspelled words since their spelling wasn't standardized yet either and v is used instead of u in some cases but not all.
Ain jenaweser torta zú machenn
Nempt 36 lott mangoldt oder spinetkraút, 6 lott geriben
kesß, 5 lott bamel, 12 lott gerente milich, das keslin darúon,
vnnd das kraút brien, aúch klainhacken vnnd als vnnde rainanderrieren
vnnd ain torta daraús machen mit ainer
deckin/.
My translation with some major word help from KB
A Genovese tart to make
Take 36 lott of silver or vulgar beet or else spinach leaves, 6 lott grated cheese, 5 lott ( either olive oil or melted butter), 12 lott ruined milk, with cheeselets thereon, and the leaves blanched as well as chopped small, and also under one another to (layer or mix?) and a tart with a cover over it.
She found that a lott was between 10 and 16.66 grams, so I'll average and say 13 grams = 1 lott.
So, we have
468 grams of spinach leaves, 78 grams of grated cheese, 65 grams of olive oil, 156 grams of curdled milk.
Result in ounces, which turns out to be pretty close to what the original translation said it was, except for the part about the curdled milk and not being quite so much spinach.
16.5 ounces of spinach, 2.75 ounces of cheese, 2.25 ounces of olive oil, 5.5 ounces of curdled milk with cheeselets.
I'll have to get the whole milk and try this out now.
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How much fresh cheese does 6 ounces of curdled milk make?
The reason I ask is I really want to make this tart down below..... The translator says to use quark, I was thinking something more like a fresh curd cheese such as a queso fresco or a ricotta salata.
From Sabrina Welserin's Cookbook 1553
30 To make Genovese tart
Take eighteen ounces of chard or spinach, three ounces of grated cheese, two and one half ounces of olive oil and the fresh cheese from six ounces of curdled milk. And blanch the herbs and chop them small and stir it all together and make a good covered tart with it.
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