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A Fourteenth-Century Business History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Abstract

The following piece contains valuable information on medieval industrial and labor history. It is a translation from a family chronicle and autobiography written by the Nürnberg patrician, merchant, and statesman, Ulman Stromer (1329–1407). Stromer is considered to have been the creator of the German large-scale paper industry which he founded in 1390 by building a paper mill near his home town.

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Lagniappe
Information
Business History Review , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , Summer 1965 , pp. 261 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1965

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1 The source is reprinted and commented upon in Die Chroniken deutscher Städte vom 14 bis in's 16. Jahrhundert, vol. I, Nürnberg, part 1 (Leipzig, 1862), chap. 31, pp. 77 ff. See also for comments the Introduction, pp. xxx ff and the [second] Introduction, pp. 3 ff. The material is reprinted in Das Papier: Eine Berufschronik (Berlin, 1935), pp. 9 ff.

2 In German: Stampfe. They tore the linen rags to pieces.

3 Monks or their church?

4 “Sizing” is the technical term for treating the paper with glue. For the technique used in the early years of papermaking, see Ashall, Glaister Geoffrey, An Encyclopedia of the Book (Cleveland and New York, 1960), pp. 295–96.Google Scholar