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Title

Ledger of Detti debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1427
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944535443503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310962181
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4453544

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1553-1558

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Giovanbattista and Giammaria Detti for the years 1553-1558. Giovanbattista and Giammaria Detti were both members of the Arte della lana, the guild of the lanaioli, merchants who dealt in woolen cloth and cooperated with the other corporations of bankers and merchants in the comune of Florence. The Detti, like other lanaioli, saw all the processes from the raw baled wool through the final cloth, woven at numerous looms scattered in domiciles throughout the city. The ledger reflects their various activities and mentions transactions with many different workers (including weavers, spinners and dyers). Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that hold the debt or credit, the most important being Francesco di Stefano Risaliti; Mariotto d'Ottavio; and Camillo Zanossi.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
   

Extent

160 leaves : 280 x 101 mm. bound to 287 x 117 mm

Foliation

Paper, 160; [1], 2-74, 78-99, [100-163]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f.100-163 are blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern vellum; previous binding had no. 165 on contemporary slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy)
• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Dyes and dyeing--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Woolen and worsted manufacture--Italy--History
• Wool industry--Italy--History

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Accounts
• 16th century
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy
• Financial records

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