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Title

Bagno alla Villa inventories

Call number

Ms. Codex 1533
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4497261
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4497261

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1741-1753

Place

Italy

Summary

Inventories of the assets of the property of Bagno alla Villa, perhaps owned by an aristocratic family such as the Medici or the Gondi, and located in Lucca, north of Florence. The items that appear in the inventory include a large number of clothes and personal accessories (including linens, combs, perfumes, coats, underwear, towels and handkerchiefs) described in great detail; household accessories (including kitchen equipment, a coffee grinder, carpets, paintings, mirrors, decorative plates, and pillows); furniture (including chests of drawers, chairs, tables, beds and bedroom furniture); and silverware. There is a separate inventory for each room of the house and, in certain cases, there are descriptions of the items that can be found in large pieces of furniture, such as cupboards. There are also notes for items that were not on site when the inventory was drafted (for example, a table was sent out to be repaired).

Notes

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

Extent

29 leaves : 327 x 238 mm. bound to 328 x 237 mm

Foliation

Paper, 29; rectos numbered [i], 1-28, contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-28, [29], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso (p.28-29 are blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards (Zacour-Hirsch); no. 174b and Bagno alla Villa inventario on upper cover. Covered with a paper wrapper, with heading Bagno alla Villa, inventari vecchi, in a later hand.

Script

Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Clothing and dress--Italy--18th century
• House furnishings--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Inventories
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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