%0 Journal Article
%T The Study Room (Studio) in the Ragusan Houses of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century
%A Gruji£¿
%A Nada
%J -
%D 2014
%X Sa£¿etak Woodwork contracts made in the period 1425-1435 provide valuable evidence on the interior space and decoration of the Ragusan houses. The furnishing determined the purpose of each room in the house, among which was a studio or study. This word may denote a separate room as well as a piece of furniture consisting of a writing desk, seat and bookshelves. A parallel has been established between the Ragusan houses of the period - where the study room was usually on the first or on one of the upper floors - with the house of a ¡°perfect merchant¡± as described in the treatise of a Ragusan Benedikt Kotrulj from 1458. With regard to terminology, he distinguishes a ¡°common scriptorium appropriate for business affairs¡± (scriptore or scrittoio comune), which is on the first floor, from a ¡°small scriptorium¡± (scriptoreto separato or studiolo aparte), which is in the ¡°bedroom or adjoining¡±, its purpose being to accommodate those ¡°who take pleasure in books¡±
%K Dubrovnik
%K residential architecture
%K Gothic houses
%K first half of the fifteenth century
%K study room
%K studio
%K Benedikt Kotrulj
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