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Folio (235 x 314 mm). German ms. on paper with calligraphic captions and several half-titles. 453 ff. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin on wooden boards. Wants ties. Exceptionally attractive and important manuscript from the Bohemian royal chancery; the principal document of the Bohemian national finances in the second year of the rule of Emperor Maximilian II. A beautiful and hitherto unknown document of Renaissance bookkeeping in its well-preserved original binding. - In the present manuscript, Johann Rabenhaupt, head of the royal bursary and responsible for the accounting year 1565, has testified the correct statement of revenues and expenditures by his signature on every page. The volume begins with an alphabetical index, arranged in double pages and listing revenues (on left) and payments (on right) by name. Among the payers and recipients are several important names, most of them members of German-Bohemian, Czech and Polish noble families, the Tyrolean glass manufacturer Sebastian Hochstetter von Scheibenegg (d. 1573), but also the great physician Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500-77): "Petter Andreas Mathiolo [.] Ertzherzog Ferdinanden zu Osterreich LeipPhisicus, hatt zu farlicher Provision Ainhundert gulden Reinisch, die khun zwayundvierzig schockh Ainundfunffzig groschen drey pfennig behamisch; dieselb hab ich Ime für dreyzehen Monat Anzuraitten [.]" (f. 263v). Mattioli, known especially for his Dioscorides commentary, moved to Prague in 1552 as personal physician to Archduke Ferdinand, where he was later to be made head medical advisor to Emperor Maximilian II (cf. Hirsch IV, 168). The volume not only documents salaries, duties, and court expenditures, but also the receipt of border taxes, Turk taxes, tithes, loans, deposits, realties, costs of funerals and the Prague castle vineyard, etc. - Johannes Rabenhaupt von Sucha, the man responsible for this splendid Renaissance account book, was a descendant of an old Bohemian noble family which is also documented in the Palatinate, in Franconia, and in Upper Austria. Although there have been attempts at biographical studies of the royal bursar Rabenhaupt (without knowledge of the present manuscript), historical research has been forced to admit its temporary failure in this respect (see the literature below). - Slight worming to several leaves. Some offsetting of ink, but generally very well legible and hardly browned. The finely blindstamped binding shows a wide border of arched friezes; the central compartment bears the handwritten title. On the lower cover, the friezes frame a roll representing virtues; central compartment decorated with two parallel arched friezes. Edges, spine-ends, and endpapers with traces of professional restoration; otherwise perfect. - Beket Bukovinská, "Wer war Johann Rabenhaupt? Unbeachtete Aspekte in den Beziehungen zwischen Prag und Südwest-Deutschland", in: Rudolf II, Prague and the World. Papers from the International Conference. Prague, 2-4 September, 1997. Praha, Artefactum - Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic [1998], p. 89-94.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1532 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 18.

Condition: Sehr gut. 130 x 97 mm. *Nicht bei Warnecke. Nicht bei O'Dell u.a. - Einziger mir zugänglicher Nachweis im Katalog XLV von Jacques Rosenthal um 1910 unter der No. 719 und mit Abbildung (wohl das vorliegende Exemplar) für 60 Mark (etwa ein halber Monatslohn eines Arbeiters). Das sprechende Wappen von Rosenthal der Familie Rabenhaupt zugeschrieben, "eine freiherrl. aus Böhmen stammende Familie [.] Hübscher Holzschnitt" (Rosenthal). - Rückseitig mit Sammlerstempel "J.H.Hefner". Gut erhalten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 200.