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Title

Ledger of Detti accounts and memoranda

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1500
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944875913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319865414
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4487591

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1557-1558

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of Giovanbattista Detti for the years 1557-1558. Giovanbattista Detti, spelled Deti in the manuscript, was a member of the guild of the lanaioli, merchants who dealt in woolen cloth and cooperated with the other corporations of bankers and merchants in the Comune of Florence. The present manuscript contains mostly transactions concerning the payment of wool workers, who were not paid according to the time they worked, but according to the quantity of cloth (measured in panni) they made instead. There is also a small number of accounts related to the purchase of soaps, frequently used in certain phases of the manufacture of wool, especially scouring. Miscellaneous accounts related to small debts and credits, and short memoranda containing information on how a specific event led to a debt or credit are also present.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Armoires Lion 1883 (Florence, 1529), but with the lion's snout more defined.

Extent

150 leaves : 333 x 223 mm. bound to 350 x 235 mm

Foliation

Paper, 150; 1-25, [26-76], 76-113, [114-149], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

Layout

Written in 2 or 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with the a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts involved, and the smaller one on the right with the amount received or disbursed. Memoranda written in long lines.

Decoration

Detti signet in ink (f. 1r).

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy)
• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Dyes and dyeing--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Wool industry--Italy--History
• Woolen and worsted manufacture--Italy--History

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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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Signet, f. 1r