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6�7The Musaeum: Its Contents Figures ��.35–��.36 Heading and a detail of the list of ‘Lustigen Tiecher’ which Strada sent to Munich, probably in the early or mid-1570s. responsible for other Strada documents and is filed among the documents re- lating to Strada’s acquisitions in Venice and Mantua in 1567–1569, it has been generally related to these, and dated to this period. But this is not an inevitable conclusion: the Libri Antiquitatum were put together only at a later date, and the file was meant to include all material relating to Strada’s dealings with the Munich court. This context therefore does not contradict the arguments that can be proposed to date the document somewhat later. A brief discussion of its contents and its probable function will help to understand the context of Strada’s role as a collector and/or a purveyor of works of art produced by his contemporaries. The list, in German, is headed ‘Pleasant painted canvases from the hand of skilful painters in Venice and elsewhere in Italy, all in oils’ [Figs. 12.35–12.36]; a transcription is given in Appendix C.92 The many Italian terms in the text (‘dit- to’, ‘quadro’, ‘retrati’) indicate that the German text was derived from an Italian source, was dictated, translated or edited by a German who himself was used to think in Italian—or the other way round. Perhaps this was Strada himself, more likely it was Paolo or Ottavio Strada. It is not clear what its function may have been: since it gives no estimates or prices, it cannot have been part of a formal offer of sale to Fugger or the Duke, much less an account of objects ac- tually delivered in Munich. The rather general tenor of the heading and of the descriptions of the individual items suggest that it was drafted in order to in- terest various patrons in the collection, rather than that it was specifically ad- dressed to Duke Albrecht and Hans Jakob Fugger, the latter of whom would not have needed a version in German and certainly would not need to be told that 92 BHStA-LA 4853, fols. 15–16: ‘Gemalte Lustigen Tiecher vonn Kunstreichen Mallern zu Venedig und sonst in Italia gemacht, alle von Oel Farbenn’. It was printed in Stockbauer 1864, pp. 43–44, for a more precise transcription, see Appendix C.