Moentack, Pieter.

[Spine title:] Wisselbrieven Copie.

[Bruges], P. Moentack 1700-15.

Square 4to (199 x 158 mm.). Contemporary foliation: [1], 110, [76] leaves. In two different hands in the first seventeen leaves and a single contemporary cursive hand thereafter.

Contemporary vellum over boards (very worn, splayed), manuscript titles on the front cover and spine, four leather ties, edges sprinkled blue.

            A Flemish merchant’s records of SOME ONE-THOUSAND-SEVENTY WINE AND DISTILLED LIQUOR SALES over eight years in two dozen cities from Málaga to London.
            One of Bruges’ wealthiest citizens, Moentack (d. 1733) also traded in paper, principally for lacemaking. His entries record the transaction’s place and date, the buyer’s name and the merchandise’s cost. This information appears in Dutch, English, French or Spanish, according to the location of the sale. He took payment in cash, promissory notes and bills of exchange in schillings, livres, florins….
            The volume originally belonged to Anna Marij Frans (d. 1717), who wrote some religious verses in Dutch in the front. Arithmetic exercises by Joh. Bapt. Frans — her ?son — follow. Upon Anna’s marriage to Pieter in 1703, she surrendered the book to him: he recorded his “acquisition” on the front pastedown. First quire loose, last quire detached.

Item #05674

Price: $2,150.00