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Title

Ledger of Risaliti debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1413
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944522763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310402728
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4452276

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1559-1566

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Francesco di Stefano Risaliti for the years 1559-1566. 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. Many transactions appear to be with employees who operate in the wool and textile industry (especially dyers and spinners), who are paid for their services; but transactions with various workers (farmers, carpenters, builders) are also present. Other transactions are related to debts and credits between Francesco di Stefano Risaliti and business counterparts and members of the Florentine aristocracy, the most important being Luca Salvucci; Jacopo Amatucci; Antonio Risaliti; and Filippo Salviati. Some of these transactions appear to be loans of money to finance the development of textile businesses. The back flyleaf is a vellum leaf from a mid-12th-century manuscript from Italy, and is written in a Gothic script. It contains a passage from a Latin commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Thessalonians, with the quotations from the epistle in red ink.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Aigle 89 (Florence, 1501)

Extent

192 leaves : 334 x 226 mm. bound to 343 x 228 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 192 + i (parchment); versos numbered [1], 2-116, [117-192], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-cxvi, [cxvii-cxci], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (pages 117-192 blank). Each opening has a matched Arabic numeral on the left and a Roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 257 on spine; the heading Libro di debitori e creditori, no. 68 and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather strap; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction.

Script

Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

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

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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