| Buyer Notes | The buyer was a tailor. on 16 September 1600, Gerrit Jacobsz., kleermacker, from Groningen, 29, living in the Pieter Jacobsstraet (14 years), no living parents, was betrothed to Aeltge Pieters, from 's Hertogenbosch, 30, living in the St. Lucijensteech (12 years). He was literate, she was not (DTB 409/240). Their daughter Lysbeth was said to be 20 years old on 9 June 1626 when Jacob Garbrantsz. Visch (probably of R 29951) brought 151 f. 2 st. 4 penn. to the Orphan Chamber on her behalf (WK 5073/789). |
| Buyer Notes | Jacob Viverius was a doctor in medicine and a poet. In 1611, the municipality of Amsterdam paid Jacobus Viverius 50 f. for certain books that he had donated to the magistrates of this city (probably on medicine) (Oud Holland 24(1906), p. 117). On 14 October 1612, Jacobus Viverius and Jacobus Barra, doctors in medicine, declared that they had visited a Scot and found that he had a broken rib (Van Dillen, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van het bedrijfsleven R.G.P. 78(1933), p. 12.) On 30 December 1620, doctor Jacobus Barra appeared before the Orphan Chamber on behalf of his five children procreated by his late wife Sara Moys and brought 1,500 f. for their mother's inheritance (WK 5073/789). Barra remarried with Margarite Tukschaep. One of his children with his second wife, named Lucretia Barra, married Martinus de Vroede (pre-nuptial contract dated 28 February 1650 in NA 988, act no. 57, Not. J. Bosch). Another son, also from the same marriage, named Samuel Barra, married Ellisabeth Davids van Ceulen, baptized on 6 December 1626, on 7 November 1655. After her death, an inventory containing many attributed paintings was taken of the goods the couple owned in common, dated 12 April 1702 (Marten Jan Bok in Jaarboek C.B.G. 44(1990), p. 153). In 1615, Viverius published De wintersche avonden of Nederlandsche vertellingen (Mieke Smidts-Veldt, De Amsterdamse arts-dichter Jacob Viverius en zijn anekdotenverzameling Maandblad Amstelodamum 81(1994), p. 38). In 1618, he signed a petition to the Amsterdam council, along with several other doctors in medicine and apothecaries, concerning the city's payments for the services of these professionals (Jaarboek Amstelodamum 41(1947), p. 63). In 1621, when Jacob van de Vivere was active as an apothecary in Amsterdam, he examined various men, along with the surgeon Mr. Coenraet, for signs of syphilis, on behalf of the Kerkeraad of the Reformed Church (Roodenburg, Onder censuur, Hilversum, 1990, p. 317). |
