Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Gondi miscellany.

Authors

• Gondi, Giovanbattista
• Gondi, Ferdinando
• Gondi, Alessandro
• Gondi, Federigo
• Corsi, Lorenzo
• Larioni, Niccolò
• Roncalli, Guglielmo
• Conti, Ferdinando

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1544
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946321353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/429116062
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cv4cb6g

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with a few documents in Latin and French

Origin

Date

1636-1718

Place

Italy

Summary

Approximately 100 (largely original, but with some copies) miscellaneous legal documents, accounts, petitions, and letters, covering the years 1636-1718. The documents concern, for the most part, the business of numerous members of two branches of the Gondi family, in Italy and in France. Most of the correspondence is between Giovanbattista Gondi and his French cousins, as well as his Italian business partners, dealing with trades, sales, and exchanges of different currencies for a profit, probably through bills of exchange. In certain cases, especially for letters between Giovanbattista and his Italian associates, the tone is more personal and colloquial, expressing concern or apprehension for transactions, or skepticism towards members of the French branch of the Gondi family. A small number of documents concern private matters of the Gondi, including the dowry of Caterina Gondi. The last part of the miscellany (f. 540-591) contains documents addressed or drafted by Giovanbattista Gondi while he was a balì (a prestigious office within the order of Santo Stefano). Marginalia and other miscellaneous notations appear throughout the volume. Many documents contain notarial signatures and seals. Contemporary foliation, starting with f. 370, suggests that this was part of a larger manuscript.

Notes

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

Extent

228 leaves : 293 x 203 mm

Foliation

Paper, 228; 370-483, 485-490, [i], 491-510, [i], 511, [i], 512, [i], 513-530, [i], 531-536, [i], 537-593, contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Gatherings roughly sewn together, no cover.

Script

Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Gondi family
• Gondi family
• Ferdinando--II,--Grand-Duke of Tuscany,--1610-1670
• Ferdinando--II,--Grand-Duke of Tuscany,--1610-1670
• Sacro militare ordine di Santo Stefano papa e martire
• Sacro militare ordine di Santo Stefano papa e martire
• Civil law--Italy
• Civil law
• Dowry
• Banks and banking
• Italy
• Banks and banking--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800
• Dowry--Italy
• Italy--Florence

Genres

• Codices
• Notarial documents
• Financial documents
• Legal documents
• Manuscripts, Italian
• Manuscripts, Italian
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Miscellany
• 17th century
• 18th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper
• Financial records
• Legal
• Accounts

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