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Document 09

1454 [note of 13 February – payment to Iacomo Sagramoro]:

A Maistro Iacomo Sagramoro depintore insino adi XIII de decto (febbraio) libre dodece, soldi diece marchesani, per lo pretio de uno paro de carte le qualle lui ha lavorato al prefacto nostro Signore e messe d'oro fim, como appare mandato de la Sua Signoria registrato al Registro de l'anoo 1453, a c.____ ; al "Zornale AA" de ussita a c. 12 ……………………………………………………L. XII. X.

[Franceschini 1993 n. 726c (p. 410); cf. Ortalli 1996b:185]

Ortalli 1996:185 considers this pack to be one of carte da trionfi.

Preliminary translation
(by Ross Gregory Caldwell)

To Maestro Jacomo Sagramoro, eminent painter, 13th of the aforesaid (February), twelve lire, ten soldi marchesane, for taking one pack of cards upon which he worked for the aforesaid our Lord and putting fine gold, as appears mandated from His Lordship’s registration in the Register of the year 1453, to c.____; in the “Journal AA” of ussita to c. 12 ………..L. XII. X.