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Title

Libro spese nella mishmarah delli Signori? Lustro Rovigo, Salamon d'Abram Usigli e Leon Fano.

Authors

• Rovigo, Lustro
• Usiglio, Salamon d'Abram
• Fano, Leon

Call number

Ms. Codex 2038
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976538313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1138084078
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3nv99m35

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian with words and names in Hebrew throughout

Origin

Date

1766-1767

Place

Modena

Summary

One year's worth of expenses of a mishmarah (confraternity committed to making visits or night watches before important events) recorded by Lustro Rovigo, Salamon d'Abram Usiglio, and Leon Fano, three members of leading Jewish families of Modena. The first section consists of 243 numbered entries for expenses entered in chronological order between March 1766 and March 1767. This is followed by nine sections representing categories of expenses, such as annual, semiannual, and quarterly salaries (for roles such as cantor and organizer) and ordinary and extraordinary expenses. In each of the expense categories, entries from the first section are listed in numerical order by their entry number. A table of contents at the front lists the sections (f. i recto) and each entry in the first section has had a number added below its entry number corresponding to the folio where that entry appears in an expense category. A note laid into the manuscript dated 13 November 1766 calculates the difference between an amount connected with Leon Fano and the expenses up to that point, through entry 168 (between folios 8 and 9).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from cover title; the word mishmarah is written in Hebrew characters.
   

Extent

48 leaves : 182 x 135 mm bound to 182 x 140 mm +

Collation

Paper, 48; 1-3¹⁶; [i], 1-37, [38-47 (40-47 blank)]; early foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) pasteboard, with inscription in ink: Dalle 11 marzo 1766 alle 30 [marzo] 1767 / Dal primo Nisan 5526 a tutto Adar 5527 / Libro spese nella mishmarah delli [Signori?] Lustro Rovigo, Salamon d'Abram Usigli e Leon Fano.

Layout

Quarto format.

Script

Written in cursive script, possibly by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Bloomsbury Auctions (London), 23 February 2017, as part of lot 59.
   

Subjects topical

• Jews--Italy--Modena--History--Sources
• Confraternities--Italy--Modena--Early works to 1800
• Accounting--Italy--18th century
• Accounting
• Confraternities
• Jews
• Modena (Italy)
• Italy
• Italy--Modena

Genres

• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Account books
• Early works
• History
• Sources

Keywords

• Accounts
• 18th century
• Italian
• Jewish
• Paper
• Italy
• Financial records

Licenses

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Table of contents

• i recto — [Table of contents]
• fol. 1r — Libro spese
• Loose leaf recto — [Related note, 13 November 1766]