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01  1442/1  Ferrara/Sagramoro
02  1442/2  Ferrara/Kids
03  1449/1  Marcello letter
04  1450/1  Ferrara/Sagramoro
05  1450/2  Florence
06  1450/3  Sforza letter
07  1451/1  Ferrara/Sagramoro
08  1452/1  Malatesta/Sforza
09  1454/1  Ferrara/Sagramoro
10  1454/2  Ferrara/Sagramoro
11  1454/3  Ferrara/production
12  1454/4  Ferrara/production
13  1454/5  Ferrara/production
14  1456/1  Ferrara/Trotti
15  1456/2  Ferrara/Sagramoro
16  1457/1  Ferrara/70 cards
17  1457/2  Ferrara/Vicenza
18  1458/1  Ferrara/Vicenza
19  1459/1  Ferrara/production
20  1459/2  Bologna
21  1460/1  Ferrara/Vicenza
22  1460/2  Ferrara/Vicenza
23  1460/3  Ferrara/Vicenza
24  1460/4  Ferrara/Vicenza
25  1460/5  Ferrara/Vicenza
26  1461/1  Ferrara/Vicenza
27  1463/1  Ferrara /Vicenza
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in Context with Playing Cards (1441 - 1463)

Document 15

This is the last entry about Sagramoro in context to playing cards. Sagramoro was the most mentioned artist in the Ferrarese account books, he worked for more than 35 years in service of the d'Este court and his activities in card production had been only a small part of his occupation. In 1456/1457 he retired and was dead in 1459.

1456 [note for 18 December – payment to Iacomo Sagramoro]

A Maistro Iacomo de Sagramoro depintore adi 18 de dicembre libre undece, soldi diece marchesani per sua mercede e spesa de havere depinto uno paro de carte da triumphi lavorate d'oro e argento a tute sue spese per uso delo Illustro nostro Signore, e consignato a Piedro de Schiveto e per lui a Zoanne de Romio, e questo per conto del fontico, e posto da loro a Libro CC, a c. 166 ; al "Memoriale CC", c.____…L. XI. X.

[Franceschini 1993 n. 788c. (p. 461); cf. Ortalli 1996b:185]

Preliminary translation
(by Ross Gregory Caldwell)

To Maestro Jacomo de Sagramoro, painter, the 18th day of December, eleven lire, ten soldi marchesane for his recompense and expenses for having painted one pack of triumph cards worked in gold and silver, all at his expense, for the use of our Illustrious Lord, and given to Piedro de Schiveto and by him to Giovanni de Romio, and which ... (...) ... L. XI. X.
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