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Title

Detti family papers

Authors

• Detti family
• Detti, Lucrezia
• Detti, Giammaria
• Detti, Giovanbattista

Call number

Ms. Coll. 754
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9945469993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430835458
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4546999

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Summary

Collection of financial documents and correspondence pertaining to the affairs of the Detti family (Giovanbattista and Giammaria in particular) for the years 1578-1591. Folders 1-2 contain miscellaneous accounts (perhaps pages from different ledgers) of Giovanbattista Detti, as well as receipts for the payment of textile products. There is also one document concerning the will of Giovanbattista Tedaldi, for whom Giovanbattista Detti was executor. Giovanbattista Detti was not only a businessman, but also a magistrato, a high office in the Florentine administration, and a number of documents consist of correspondence from citizens asking for Giovanbattista's help with minor complaints such as postponing tax payments. Folders 3-6 contain documents, organized chronologically and covering the years 1583-1591 concerning Giammaria Detti, also a merchant and magistrato of the Florentine administration. Giammaria's documents are very similar to Giovanbattista's, with fewer accounts and more receipts for a variety of transactions, including sale and purchase of textile products and currency. Folder 7 contains documents related to the returns of transactions negotiated by Giammaria and Lucrezia Detti with the Monte di pietà of Florence. Folder 8 contains documents, mostly correspondence, addressed to the Signori magistrati Detti, Giammaria and Giovanbattista, concerning either requests for help or complaints about members of the guild of the lanaioli. The Detti were in fact heavily involved with the wool guild, and often stepped in to help settle during controversies between members of the guild. The family name is often written as Deti.

Notes

• Written on various sizes of paper, some with seals and remainders of seals.
   
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
   

Extent

74 items (101 leaves)

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Monte di pietà (Florence, Italy)
• Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy)
• Merchants--Italy
• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Civil law--Italy
• Inheritance and succession--Italy

Genres

• Accounts
• Wills
• Receipts (financial records)
• Financial documents
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

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

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