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Show 500 PAPERMAKING frer cmmdcmb[g deliberation Stromer succeeded in inducing of artisans to leave their positions in Lombardy lem Stromer was, at this time, sixty-two years of age, and hi experience in trading had made him keen and ofa cautious dispo i e walcrmnkx appear in St paper upon which the Ripol press costbook was written. A reproduction of a page from thi manuseript is shown in illustration No. 14 sition. After procuring the workers he had all of them swear t in Germany. Accordingly, Ulman Stromer wrot script diary that Closen Obsser, the man he had engaged as foreman, "promised to be faithful unto me and declared on his oat that he would be true to me and my heirs, that he would be m overseer at the mill, keep me from harm and that as long as h lived he would make paper for no one else save me and for m heirs and would not teach any man to make paper in any way a all. This took place on the Sunday next before St. Lawrence Day in my room at the time of evening prayer in the year 130 whe my son Jirg was present." Thus having his foreman's faithfulnes assured, Stromer proceeded to have the rest of his employees tak the same oath. He recorded in his chronicle that, "it was on th Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
