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Title

Ledger of Detti debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1399
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944503543503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/308677653
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4450354

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1547-1555

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Giovanbattista and Giammaria Detti for the years 1547-1555. Giovanbattista and Giammaria Detti were both members of 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 Matteo de 'Pazzi; Francesco Risaliti; Alessandro Antinori; Alessandro Rucellai; Federico de' Ricci; and Bartolomeo and Romano Martelli.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Couronne 4835 (Lucca, 1565-1566).

Extent

208 leaves : 330 x 227 mm. bound to 334 x 229 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (parchment) + 208 leaves + i (parchment); 1-42, 42, [43], 44-148, 148-176, [177], 178-182, [183-189], 189, [190-205], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 228 on spine; the heading Quadernaccio, no. 166, letter A with decorative penwork and signet D on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather strap; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Script

Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Dyes and dyeing--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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