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Title

Raggualgio delle piazze de cambi e moneta

Authors

• Della Torre, Giovanni Battista
• Gondi, Filippo

Call number

Ms. Codex 314
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580936
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580936

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1632-1648

Place

Italy

Summary

Consists of two treatises dealing mostly with financial matters. Also contains a short book catalog at the end. First work is a treatise on coinage and exchange rates, also on bills of exchange and other financial matters. Has an alphabetical index at the end. Second work is a treatise on the method of making arbitrage on bills of exchange and ascertaining commissions. The book catalog is arranged in sections: political and historical (beginning with Machiavelli's The Prince), letters, ceremonial, military instruction, poetry, agriculture. Also includes a number of blank leaves, and several containing conversion tables.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   
• Title and attribution of first work from f. 1r and 53v.
   
• Title and attribution of second work from f. 65r.
   
• A leaf from a dealer's catalogue and a two-page typewritten description are on file in the Library.
   

Extent

106 leaves : 323 x 226 (265 x 160) mm. bound to 328 x 228 mm

Foliation

Paper, 106; [i], [1-105]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; [ii], 1-106, [xxiv], 1-86, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment with cloth ties. Edges of some leaves torn and fraying. Some oxidation of ink.

Script

Written in a cursive script in what appears to be the hand of Filippo Gondi, including the text of the first work (f. 53v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Filippo Gondi (inscription, recto of folio before f. 1). From the archives of the Medici-Gondi family of Florence.
   
• Sold by Maggs Brothers, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Acceptances
• Bills of exchange
• Coinage

Genres

• Codices
• Book catalogs
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 65r — Del modo di fare gli arbitrii ..., f. 65r