Papiers Briquet B.16

Achats de papiers, Inventaires; Législation, impôts, routes; Noms, formats, sortes de papiers; Statistique du papier; Industries accesoires dont le papier est la base; Bibliographie.

This box contains a book of unbound papers consisting of notes about the purchases of paper found in diverse archives. For example:

Lyon 1603 --

1 Rame Grand Papier
2 " Papiers au Pot
1 " Grand papier
     couronne fort
2 " Papier au Pot

3 liv. 10 sols.
5 " _
3 liv. 10s.

5"_

Vaucluse 1594
(Archiv. de Vaucluse B.1516)

Taxe et règlement des marchandises ateblies parles Trois Etats et par le Procureur général du Comté Venaissin, en Juillet 1593.

 

 

Papier du Comtat, de la grande forme, le meuilleur,

24 sols la rame.

le petit

18 " "

Papièr de Lion Croix

40 " "

Papièr au Raisin moyen

50 " "

Also in these papers is a journal in a pink wrapper entitled "Filigranes" on the cover, and inside "Signification symbolique de Filigranes," téré de Baconiana 1900 n°. 1. 2 3 et 4. [The date "1900" must be an error, since he discusses an article in Baconiana, 1903, nos. 1 & 2, by Harold Bayley, entitled Hidden Symbols of the rosicrucians(?) "dan lequel l'auteur attribue à certaines filigranes une signification symbolique." In no. 4 (1903) is an article by William Kirsch, "The raison d'etre of mediavel papermarks."

Also included are:

tracings of the marks reproduced in the Bayley article, primarily drawn from Greenham's Works, London 1605.

notes on "Contrefaçon de filigranes" in Berne and Bâle

Another journal in a gray wrapper, is entitled "Legislation Impôts Routes"; a journal in a blue wrapper, "Noms, Formats, Sortes de Papiers." Included in the latter are Briquet's notes on "Formats des Papiers à Bologne et leurs noms" that appears in the forward to Les Filigranes. There are also notes on names and prices of papers in Caen, Epinal, Venise, Tours, etc.

A journal in a white wrapper, "Statistique du Papier."

A journal in a white wrapper, "Industries acessoires dont le Papier est la base" (e.g., "plumes," "cartons," "Papier mâché," "Chapeaux en papier," "Journalisme," "Papiers cigarettes," "Enveloppes de Lettres," "Lingerie de Papier."

A journal wrapped in lined note paper: "Bibligraphie ou Sources de Renseignements sur l'Histoire [de?] la Fabrication du Papier."

A journal in a lavender wrapper: "Bibliographie Divers Papier [dit?] de Coton.

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