Description of University of Pennsylvania Oversize Ms. Codex 1504: Account book of Vincenzo Spada University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1504: Account book of Vincenzo Spada are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1504 9944881893503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320086327 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4488189 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. Italian and Latin Account book of Vincenzo Spada scribe Bernardinis, Martino

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 150 leaves : 346 x 220 mm. bound to 350 x 235 mm Paper, 150; 1-130, 151-170; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands.

Modern cloth.

Written in Italy between 1547 (f. 2r) and 1551 (f. 128v).

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