Details

Other Title:

Riforma della Dogana di Livorno.

Subjects:

Merchants -- Italy.
Statutes -- Italy -- Livorno.
Law -- Italy -- Livorno.
Customs administration -- Italy -- Livorno -- History.
Customs administration.
History.
Law.
Statutes.
Merchants.
Livorno (Italy) -- Commerce -- History.
Livorno (Italy) -- History -- Sources.
Livorno (Italy) -- Politics and government.
Italy -- Livorno.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Regulations (executive records)
Statutes.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Copies of the statutes and trade regulations of Livorno, a city on the Tyrrhenian coast under Florentine influence. Volume 1 covers the years 1565-1600, and Volume 2 the years 1592-1649. A large number of the articles contained in the first volume aim at regulating trades between Italian merchants and their foreign counterparts, as well as controlling the specific procedures necessary for the collection of gabelle, a form of indirect tax applied to a wide range of goods. Strict rules also regulate customs, clearance of goods, prohibited goods, and the fees that visitors had to pay to the customs officers in order to be granted access to the city. Some articles concern the rights and responsibilities of city and customs officers, and of other workers employed by the maritime authorities. Volume 1 also contains a detailed list of the gabelle due to customs officers in Livorno, followed by the current rates of the tariffs that merchants have to pay to the scafaioli, workers who would transport the merchants' goods on their behalf. Copies of miscellaneous letters, suppliche, and other documents concerning the statutes are also present. In certain cases, the grand-dukes of Tuscany appear either as the recipients or senders of the letters, together with numerous Livornese city and customs officers. The suppliche were generally written by merchants, who appealed to be granted reductions on the gabelle. The second volume is almost solely composed of similar copies of miscellaneous letters and suppliche.The majority of them are suppliche to the grand-dukes, but copies of official correspondence between local officers concerning the management of the city are also not uncommon. Brief but detailed information about the increases of the gabelle that occurred between 1598 and 1599 is also present.

Contents:

1. Volume 1, f. [i]r-[iv]v: Stratto della presente riforma.
2. Volume 1, f.1r-42v: [Amended articles, 1565]
3. Volume 1, f.43r-56v: [Copies of letters and announcements concerning the statutes, 1575-1583]
4. Volume 1, f.57r-72v: Stratto delle gabelle della dogana di Livorno.
5. Volume 1, f.73r-74v: Tariffa di quanto habino da pagare di nolo e mercanti.
6. Volume 1, f.75r-105v: [Copies of letters, suppliche, and miscellaneous documents concerning the statutes, 1566-1600]
7. Volume 2, f.1r-7v: [Copies of letters, suppliche, and miscellaneous documents concerning the statutes, 1592-1602]
8. Volume 2, f.7v-9v: [Gabelle increases for the years 1598-1599]
9. Volume 2, f.10r-96v: [Copies of letters, suppliche, and miscellaneous documents concerning the statutes, 1601-1649]
10. Volume 2, f.100r-102r: Repertorio.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine of Volume 1; Zacour-Hirsch supply the title Riforma della Dogana di Livorno.
Foliation: Volume 1: Parchment, ii (paper) + 107 + iii (paper); [i-iv], 1-75, [76-103]; Volume 2: Parchment, 104 + i; [i], 1-103. Volume 1: contemporary Arabic numerals, upper right recto, skips f. 76 and f. 77; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto from f. 76 to end. Volume 2: contemporary foliation, upper right recto, f. 98-103 are misnumbered and were renumbered correctly in ink in a later hand.
Script: Written in a cursive humanistic script by many different hands.
Decoration: Volume 1 has many illuminated 2-line initials in red, green, yellow and blue; extensive rubrication for headings and some capitals.
Binding: Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, later rebacked; Volume 1 has metal corners; Volume 2 has the remains of two clasps.
Origin: Written in Livorno (Italy) from 1565 (Volume 1, f.1r) to 1649 (Volume 2, f.96r).
The back endleaf and front and back pastedowns in Volume 2 consist of reused parchment manuscript leaves. Much of the original text is still legible.
Much worm damage to the cover boards, especially in Volume 1. Many stains and smudges. Inside covers of Volume 1 have lost most of their paper pastedowns.

Penn Provenance:

Walter Ashburner (Florence; library stamp, on random pages throughout both volumes).
Sold by Moretti, 1952.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 97 (Ms. Italian 24).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 266

Contributor:

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609.
Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587.
Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1590-1621.
Ferdinando II, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1610-1670.

OCLC:

155964222