From the Century when the Fair went on
(Leipsic, Woman from.) 1592. Colored wood engraving heightened with gold. (1877-84.) 20.5 x 14 cm. – Lipperheide Ad 46. – Leaves for the Knowledge of Costumes NS. 201.
Traditional costume from the century when the fair went on. For the “Leipsic Fairs (developing from the early markets) … obtained only a larger importance when in 1507 Emperor Maximilian I vested the city with the right of staple and depot” (Meyer’s Convers.-Lex., 4th ed., Leipsic 1889, X, 665/I). And in 1711 Leipsic surpassed the older Imperial Fairs of Frankfort on the Main.
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