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Sketches of a Clerk: Pen-and-Ink Drawings in the Margins of the Medieval Account Books of Reval (Tallinn)

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The following is a case study of the numerous pictures found in the margins of late-medieval account books of Reval. The first goal is to present the corpus of pictures and to analyse the forms, functions, and dynamics of this practice of drawing. Besides particular, unique features of the Reval drawings, I will show the connections of this corpus of pictures with the practices of other North European urban chanceries. Along with the discussion of the pragmatic aspects which characterise the Reval pictures, the question will be raised of the possibilities of using these pictures for reconstructing late medieval urban mentalities.

Author(s): Juhan Kreem
Series: Medium Aevum Quotidianum. Sonderband, 18
Publisher: Medium Aevum Quotidianum
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 78
City: Krems

List of Illustrations 7
Visual Sources 9
The Medieval Account Books of Reval 12
The Scribes 16
The Pictures 19
Horseshoes 19
Scales 26
Hands 31
Other Repeated Pictures 36
Singular Pictures 39
The Dynamics of the Corpus 63
The Parallels 66
The Reval Corpus of Pictures as a Historical Source 68
Conclusion 71
Bibliography 72