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Title

Notebook of Giomi debtors and creditors

Call number

Ms. Codex 1431
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944549163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311559978
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4454916

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1568-1581

Place

Italy

Summary

Notebook of debtors and creditors of Cosimo Giomi for the years 1568-1581. 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 Giovanni di Francesco Francini; Giovanni Nicholini; Polito Lioni; Michelangelo da Gagliano; Cosimo di Giovanni; Lorenzo Ganuzzi; and Marco Colombini. There are also frequent cash transactions with a wool worker, referred to in the text as Battista lanino.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Tete humaine 15614 (Lucca, 1445), but with curlier hair and a pointier nose.

Extent

96 leaves : 203 x 138 mm. bound to 208 x 141 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 96; [1-96], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation partial and irregular.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 266 on spine; the heading Cosimo Giomi 1568-1581 on upper cover (part of upper cover missing); lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

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

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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