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Title

Account book of Vincenzo Spada

Other related names

• Bernardinis, Martino, scribe

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1504
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944881893503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320086327
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4488189

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian and Latin

Origin

Date

1547-1551

Place

Italy

Summary

Account of Vincenzo Spada, tax collector for the Papal States, for the years 1547-1551, possibly written by Martino Bernardinis. In 1547, Spada, who previously worked as a merchant in Lucca, was appointed by the Camera Apostolica to collect revenues for the pope from various parts of Italy after his predecessor, Benvenuto Oliverio, was fired from the job. Spada was in charge of collecting ordinary and extraordinary taxation first for Paul III and then for Julius III, from various parts of Italy (including Parma, Piacenza, Ferrara, Urbino, Pesaro, Napoli, Senigallia, and Camerino); from religious institutions and orders (e.g. the monasteries of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Vall'Ombrosa, San Girolamo, and San Giorgio in Alga, and orders of friars minor such as the Carthusians, the Camaldolese, the Celestines, and the Lateran Canons); and from individuals of a different fiscal status (such as Jews). The manuscript contains a number of copies of documents that record the changes that occurred over the years Spada was a collector in the papal taxation system, including tax increases and decreases and different policies related to tax matters. Accounts, sometimes itemized, are kept for the four years Spada was in service. Short memoranda that describe the circumstances that characterized collecting revenues in a diverse range of locations are also present. In certain cases, the payers leave their signature underneath Spada's annotations, confirming their name and the amount paid. Many of the passages that contain the guidelines issued by the Camera Apostolica are written in Latin (but are sometimes followed by a short summary in Italian) and written in a larger italic hand, whereas the passages where itemized accounts were transcribed are typically in Italian and written in a much faster and less careful hand.

Notes

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

Extent

150 leaves : 346 x 220 mm. bound to 350 x 235 mm

Foliation

Paper, 150; 1-130, 151-170; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

Script

Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Taxation, Papal--Early works to 1800
• Monasticism and religious orders--Taxation

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Receipts
• Notarial documents
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Accounts
• 16th century
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy
• Financial records
• Legal

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