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Show workmen wished to produce as little paper as possible so as to force me t Jet them have the mill for a rent of 200 gulden a year. This I would no agree todoand they then offered also togive me an amount of paper. Fro this I understood that they wished to ruin me an deprive me of the paper mill In medieval times the master had great authorit over his workersand Stromer recorded in his diary "In the year 1391 0n the twentieth of August, I too Franzand his brother Marcus and shut them in th tower." On the fourth day of their imprisonmen the unrulyItalians sent for Stromer's brother-in-law thinking that he would be more lenient than thei master, A reconciliation was effected and the me were liberated on the fourth day but not until the had sworn that they would cause no more troubl and that they would thereafter do their full share o work at the paper mill The confinement in the tower had the desire result upon the scheming Italiansand they worke ‘morein harmony thereafter. Encouraged by theim The watermark o the bull's head proved discipline Stromer engaged additional papermalkers who were duly sworn like the others, A carpenter was needed t repair the stampers and vats, for in 1392 Strome recorded: "In my back room Erhart Zymerman ha been engaged to be my servant for one year. Heis t do the carpentry work at the mill or he will polis paper, and his wife will sort rags, or hang paper o Jines todry, or count the paper. Wages will be pai them, a good house in which to live and firewoo withal Stromer operated the paper mill from1390t0139 when he leased the property to Jorg Tyrmann for period of four years The used by Stromer. ~ The paper on which the Stromer manuscript wa written reveals the bull's head and cross watermar in three different forms but it is thought that the paper was not from th Stromer mill but of Italian fabrication. The chain-lines of the paper ar widely spaced and the laidlines heavy and coarse. This volume whic constitutes the most valuable and unique document in the annals of paper‘making is now in the German National Museum in Narnberg An initial "S" was used on some of the Stromer moulds as a watermar and also the arms of Niirnberg was used as a device in part of the pape that was fabricated in this fourteenth century mill. Stromer died in th year 1407 at the age of seventy-nine Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |
