The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 207
ctionary of Jean de Garlande informs us that, in the eleventh century,there were in Paris four classes of workmen in the goldsmiths trade—thosewho coined money (nummularii), the clasp-makers (firmacularii), the manu-facturers of drinking-goblets (cipharii), and the goldsmiths, properly socalled… … Fig. in.—Interior of the Atelier of Etienne Delaulne, a celebrated goldsmith of Paris, in the SixteenthCentury. Designed and engraved by himself. rivalry commenced between these two trade guilds, which only ceased on thecomplete downfall of the money-changers. When Etienne Boileau, Provost of Paris…
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