27-07-2017, 02:08 PM
Well, we don't know that the reported price would have been for this MS alone, and in fact I consider it more likely to have been part of a set of books.
He "paid" 500 florins for one book here:
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(so that's fairly close).
He also paid 300 Taler to Giordano Bruno for his book dedicated to him. The record does not mention the price:
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Since I found only about 20 or so book acquisitions in the transcribed part of the records, which is only a very tiny fraction of the books he acquired, it is clear that we only have a very fragmentary view.
What's more, these transcribed records are just summaries. The actual documents (M.Staudinger called them "Akten" and I am unsure about the proper English equivalent) have all been lost.
He "paid" 500 florins for one book here:
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(so that's fairly close).
He also paid 300 Taler to Giordano Bruno for his book dedicated to him. The record does not mention the price:
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Since I found only about 20 or so book acquisitions in the transcribed part of the records, which is only a very tiny fraction of the books he acquired, it is clear that we only have a very fragmentary view.
What's more, these transcribed records are just summaries. The actual documents (M.Staudinger called them "Akten" and I am unsure about the proper English equivalent) have all been lost.