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Title

Notebook of Seccrani debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1424
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944535333503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310962122
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4453533

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1543-1556

Place

Italy

Summary

Notebook of debtors and creditors of the brothers Marco and Parrino Seccrani, for the years 1543-1556. 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. Among the names that appear throughout the notebook are Agnolo Caciolli; Paolo Signorini; Michele and Baccio Corselli; and a miller called Lazzaro. Most transactions are related to farm and household management for the Seccrani estate, including the purchase of food for the house (examples include flour, sugar and various cuts of beef); the sale, purchase or receipt as payment in kind of cattle, poultry (hens, chickens, capons and roosters) and swine; and the payment of the wages of the employees of the Seccrani estate (the miller Lazzaro, a nanny, and a number of other individuals who helped the two brothers with the animals and the land). In the notebook there are also records of small sales of farm produce made by the Seccrani brothers and such transactions appeared to be settled in cash.

Notes

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

Extent

46 leaves : 288 x 105 mm. bound to 290 x 107 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 46; [1], 2-42, [43-46], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 165 on spine.

Layout

Written in 3 columns with occasional vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Long lines are also used.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• 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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