When the account was discharged it is set out as follows:
For 150 boards (tabulis) | 6 | ducats |
For 5 large windows | 21 | " |
For 8 planks of chesnut-wood (talariis nucis) also large | 28 | " |
For 2 windows (also large) which look into the court | 4 | " |
For the grille of the great door | 30 | " |
For the great door | 16 | " |
For the keepers' bench and settle | 10 | " |
For piercing four doors | 7 | " |
122 | ducats | |
This is the actual value I promised to set out, together with that of the boards which I had omitted[2]. |
The glass and the stamnum, a word which I have ventured to translate sawder, arrived 15 December, 1475, when a carlino was paid to the porters who carried the boxes from the custom-house to the Vatican[3], and 77 ducats for carriage to the merchantman who brought them by sea from Venice. Between this date and 11 April 1476, 1100 pounds of lead were bought at different times; and there is a single payment for coals (15 January). The work was completed by the beginning of May, 1476, when the last payment was made to Hermann, ending with the significant words "there is no more for him to have (nil amplius restat habere)." His own wages, from September 1475 to May 1476, exclusive of the purchase of materials, had amounted to 56 ducats.
- ↑ Müntz, p. 126.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 128.
- ↑ Dedi his qui portarunt cassas vitri et stamnum e dovana [dogana?] ad palatium car. un. die xv decembris 1475. Expendi ducatos xv et b. [bononenos] LXIII pro vectura et expensis factis ab urbe Veneta hucus pro vitro et stamno ad vsum fenestrarum conducto die xv decembris 1475. Ibid., p. 123. Solutum est xxii Januarii 1476 Dominico Petri mercatori veneto pro vitris emptis et stamno ad usum bibliothecæ ducatos LXII, bl. III. ut superius apparet. Ibid., p. 124.