repairs to old desks[1]. These frames were painted by one of Melozzo dà Forli's workmen[2].
The desks for the fourth room or Bibliotheca pontificia were ordered in 1480–81. The workmen employed were Giovannino and his brother Marco.
These workmen received 100 ducats up to 7 April, 1481, but the account was not then settled. Up to this period the bookcases had cost the large sum of 580 ducats or, if the value of the ducat be taken at six shillings and sixpence, £188 10s. of our money.
I will next notice some of the other purchases belonging to this part of my subject.
The purchase of chains began in January 1476.
Item solvi pro vectura octo balletorum catenarum ad usum Bibliothecæ ex Mediolano Romam avectarum ducatos x et b[ononenos] xxiii, computatis etiam gabellis quas solvit in multis locis, maxime vero in terris Ducis Mediolani, die secunda Aprilis, 1476.
Dedi calonibus qui portarunt catenas et reportarunt a magistro Joanne fabro carlenos quinque, reficere n[am] anulos oportuit (sic) qui parvi erant die iiii maii.
Item dedi eisdem carlenos iiii qui portarunt ferramenta quibus catenæ innituntur, eadem die.
Dedi eidem Francisco fabro lignario pro catenis librorum e Mediolano avectis ducatos xxi, erant autem docenæ centum xxxxiiii, dedi autem
- ↑ Habuit ultimo ducatos octo pro tribus tabulis ex nuce cornisate (?) ad continenda nomina librorum e per le cornise de tre banchi vechi ex nuce die supradicta; nil omnino restat habere ut ipse sua manu affirmat, computatis in his illis lx bononenis qui superius scribuntur. Müntz, p. 130.
- ↑ Dedi Joanni pictori famulo m. Melotii pro pictura trium tabularum ubi descripta sunt librorum nomina carlenos xviii die x Octobris 1477. Ibid., p. 131.
- ↑ Magister Joanninus de Florentia et m. Marcus ejus frater faber lignarius habuere ducatos xxv pro parte solucionis banchorum quæ fiunt in bibliotheca addita nunc a Smo. d. nostro, die xviii Julii 1480. Ibid., p. 134.
