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Title

Ledger of Concini accounts

Call number

Ms. Codex 1463
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4475561
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4475561

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1629-1631

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of miscellaneous accounts of Arrigo Concini for the years 1629-1631. Accounts are mostly related to the farms Il Ponticino and La Croce, located outside Florence, property of Arrigo Concini. The ledger contains very detailed accounts of the everyday transactions that result from the management of the farms, including the purchase of feed for the animals (including hay and acorns); the sales of wine and oil to individuals and other farms; and an accurate record of births and deaths of farm animals and their value, should they be sold. There are also accounts related to the very diversified production of the farms, which included wine and oil; beans (fava, cicerchie, lupini and borlotti); cereal (wheat, barley, and flax-seed); meat and cheese (swine, chickens, pigeons, beef, veal, lambs, sheep and sheep's cheese) and assorted produce (fresh fruit, vegetables, and dried figs). Accounts concerning the payment of the workers and servants of Arrigo Concini who worked in his farms are also present and the names that appear throughout the ledger include Vergilio Casini and Benedetto Bonechi (both farmers); Bartolo Rossi; Carlo Cennini; Andrea Canerini; Giulio Boldrini; Filippo Fabbrini; and Bernardo Giuliani. Workers and farmers were often paid in kind (mostly with animals and produce). Miscellaneous accounts related the sale or purchase of textile products, including wool and house linens, and to the inheritance left to the family by Bartolomeo Concini (who died in 1578), are also present.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Forms part of: Concini Papers.
   

Watermark

Unidentified watermark containing a sun inside a circle.

Extent

57 leaves : 439 x 288 mm. bound to 446 x 297 mm

Foliation

Paper, 57 leaves; [i], 1-82, [83-113], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners (p. 82-113 are blank but ruled). The lower half of p. 31 has been cut out.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, Il giornale del signor Concini on spine; the heading Giornale, and letter A on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--17th century
• Farm life--Italy--History
• Farm management--Italy
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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