Collection ID: 0030 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ledger of debtors and creditors

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

SCRC 311 Cochran
(Philadelphia, United States, Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, Harry C. Cochran History of Business Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• https://temple-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01TULI_ALMA21402119560003811&context=L&vid=TULI&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US

Publisher

Special Collections Research Center

Language

Italian

Origin

Place

Florence?, Tuscany, Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a ledger tracking money owed and paid in the years 1493-1507. The individual or family recording the transactions was probably located in or around Florence; family names of individuals involved include Zanobi, Ginori, Ruspoli, Mariotto, and Arrighini, and occupations recorded include barber, notary, merchant (rivenditore), silk worker (setaiolo), and wool worker (lanaiolo).

Extent

167; 290 x 215 mm bound to 290 x 250 mm

Foliation

Original foliation in ink, upper right recto; a nearly contemporary hand has numbered most versos (until fol. 134r) to match their facing rectos so that both pages of an opening have the same number

Collation

1-9 (16), 10 (16, -14 -15 -16), 11 (16, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16), 12 (16, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -14 -15 -16), 13 (16, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16), 14 (16, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16), 15 (16, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -12 -13 -16)

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum; L[ibro] Nuovo, I Debitori, I Credit[ori] and letter A in ink on upper cover; lower cover with flap and strap for buckle on upper cover; simple decorative leatherwork typical of Florentine account books; date range with incorrect starting date written in ink by a later hand on upper cover, 1496-1507

Layout

Debts and credits of an individual face each other in each opening (fols. 2r-134r); each page ruled for a wide column in the center with three narrow columns on the right for amounts of transactions; verticals ruled in lead

Script

Mercantesca

Multiple hands

Keywords

• Accounts
• 15th century
• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Financial records

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