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Title

Raggioni che assistono al publico Banco per non permettersi in esso pignorazione di grani, e per non potersi fare dallo stesso al Senato il rilascio de' supposti interessi

Authors

• Banco Pubblico di Palermo (Italy)

Call number

Ms. Codex 1575
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4834871
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4834871

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, with a few passages in Latin

Origin

Date

1774

Place

Sicily

Summary

Report, written between 1773 and 1774, illustrating in great detail the reasons why, according to its own statute and accounting rules, the Banco Pubblico of Palermo (a credit institution based in Sicily that acted both as a central bank and as a retail bank for private and public investors) was not allowed to repossess the grains and other harvests of insolvent debtors (for many of them, who were often farmers or small landowners, produce was the only source of sustenance). Furthermore, it explains that, according to the same statute, the Banco cannot be expected to pay interest on investments made by the Senate of the kingdom and deposited at the Banco unless private investors pay their outstanding debts first. While arguing these two points, brief accounts of the history of the Banco and its origin are given, with an emphasis on its social function and importance in protecting the credit of smaller investors. Sections of the statute of the Banco, as well as of other laws, are quoted throughout the manuscript, and are often in Latin. The document also contains annotations and marginalia in the same hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f.2r).
   
• Forms part of: Villafiorita Ducal Records.
   

Watermark

Unidentified watermark containing 3 flowers and a crown.

Extent

52 leaves : 294 x 202 mm. bound to 298 x 207 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 52 + i (paper); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary colored paste paper boards.

Layout

Written in one column of 22-25 lines, with folded vertical bounding line.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Kurt L. Schwarz (Beverly Hills, Calif.).
   

Subjects topical

• Banks and banking--Italy--Sicily--History
• Agricultural credit--Italy--Sicily--History

Genres

• Codices
• Legal documents
• Statutes
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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