The Munich Taxae Project is a joint project of Andreas Burmester, Ursula Haller (Dresden) and Christoph Krekel (Stuttgart). Designed to span several years, the project has the goal of researching, recording, evaluating and editing information, particularly printed price lists from around 1450 to 1800. In coming years, we intend to publish the recovered information from approx. 170 art materials, such as pigments, dyes, media and adhesives as well as additives and base materials. Our publication will provide the specialist with a convenient tool for determining what materials were available in a particular place at a certain point in time. In addition, our research will yield information on the development of prices for individual materials for the period from around 1450 to 1800. We will collate this information to the analytical findings of the Doerner Institut.
In this complex task, we rely on the support of benevolent colleagues – whether it be the reference to additional price lists as yet unknown to us, the reference to locations or merely by following the good academic custom of patiently awaiting our publication and refraining from an advance publication regarding individual price lists and materials excerpted from them or even publishing information we provided without our express consent. And a final note: we are delighted by the overwhelming interest in “our” price lists. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to respond to the numerous inquiries regarding the occurrence and nomenclature of particular products because we wish to complete our collection of data before undertaking further evaluations.