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Title

Copies of Medici correspondence

Authors

• Medici, Vincenzo de'

Call number

Ms. Codex 1468
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4476581
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4476581

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1601-1603

Place

Florence

Summary

Collection of copies of miscellaneous letters and accounts originally written by Vincenzo di Carlo de' Medici, for the years 1601-1603. Most of the documents appear to be business letters of various levels of formality (from highly formal to letters written in the first person) addressed to counterparts located in various parts of Italy (including Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Pistoia, Ancona, Bologna, Genoa, Naples, Venice and Piacenza). The letters concern various kinds of banking operations and other transactions between Vincenzo Medici and a large number of counterparts, which include some of the most important aristocratic families of bankers (the Strozzi, the Capponi, the Ticci, the Acciaiuoli, the Doni and the Detti, all Florentine bankers, and the banking firm of the Acciaiuoli-Spinelli, with branches both in Florence and Naples); ambassadors (including the Guadagni, who served as diplomats for the Medici for two centuries); various clergymen (including the archbishop of Florence); and individual businessmen. Vincenzo Medici acted as financial director for the family banks and his correspondence contains information about loans and interest; financial products traded in business 'fairs' (national or international over-the-counter markets, such as the Piacenza fair, mentioned throughout the manuscript, where financial instruments such as forward contracts or bills of exchange were traded); money transfers between various branches of the Medici banks; and negotiations for the purchase or sale of textile products. Five notes, probably original, are also laid in the manuscript.

Notes

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

Watermark

Unidentified watermark containing a circle and a star (figure inside circle very faint).

Extent

208 leaves : 278 x 407 mm. bound to 283 x 432 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 208; [1-208]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 119 on spine; the heading Copie di letter, no. 263 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Script

Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--17th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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