31
Cabrera said in 1675 that the average master printer had only two presses and four cases of type (quoted above, note 6). Gaskell (A new introduction, p. 35) states that a case (or rather pair of cases-Cabrera describes a divided lay) held about 60 lb. of type, so four would hold only 240 lb. But perhaps Cabrera intended the more capacious storage cases, which held about three times as much.
32
Madurell, «Antiguos fundidores de letras en Barcelona», Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1970, 289-97. Although his last seventeenth-century reference is to 1639, Madurell states that there is documentary evidence for typefounding in Barcelona for the first three quarters of the century.
33
Madurell, «Hubert Gotard», Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1972, 194.
34
Gaskell, A new introduction, p. 38.
35
Agulló y Cobo, AIEM, i. 176. If this is the Claudio Bolán who printed in Antequera in 1602 and in Málaga in 1605, he cannot have remained long in Madrid.
36
Pérez Pastor, Noticias y documentos, iv. 376.
37
Pérez Pastor, Noticias y documentos, iv. 400. See also Agulló y Cobo, AIEM, i. 186. When the Countess of Puñonrostro became honorary stewardess of the Brotherhood of Madrid Printers in 1624, Juan Gotard acted as her deputy (J. J. Morató, Historia de la Asociación General del Arte de Imprimir, Madrid, 1925, p. 33). An Antonio Gotar (Gotard), presumably related, was mentioned by Serrano de Vargas in 1624-5 as a typefounder living in Madrid (see note 6 above). Perhaps he was the Antoni Gotard who was casting type in Barcelona in 1591 (see Madurell, note 32 above).
38
Pérez Pastor, Bibliografía madrileña, Madrid, 1891-1907, iii. 454.
39
J. Gestoso y Pérez, Noticias inéditas de impresores sevillanos, Seville, 1924, pp. 143-5.
40
J. M. de Valdenebro y Cisneros, La imprenta en Córdoba, Madrid, 1900, p. xvii, n. 4. For more details on Robles, see Agulló y Cobo, AIEM, i. 198 and ii. 181-2. Pérez Pastor, Noticias y documentos, iv. 351-2, gives three references to an unpaid debt of 1,100 reales, owed by Robles to his son-in-law.