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Title

Ledger of Concini debtors and creditors and miscellaneous accounts

Call number

Ms. Codex 1511
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4490058
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4490058

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1629-1631

Place

Terranuova Bracciolini

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 in Terranuova Bracciolini, 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 to 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 lion (?) and a crown.

Extent

320 leaves : 434 x 286 mm. bound to 456 x 304 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i + (contemporary paper) + 320; versos numbered i-cccx, [cccxi-cccxx], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], 1-310, [311-319], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, covered with cloth, originally red, now very faded; no. 86 and Arrigo Concini 1629 on spine. Lower cover wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--17th century
• Farm life--Italy--History
• Farm management--Italy

Genres

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

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