Details

Subjects:

Gondi, Filippo -- Library.
Acceptances.
Bills of exchange.
Coinage.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Economic aspects.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Book catalogs.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Consists of two treatises dealing mostly with financial matters. Also contains a short book catalog at the end. First work is a treatise on coinage and exchange rates, also on bills of exchange and other financial matters. Has an alphabetical index at the end. Second work is a treatise on the method of making arbitrage on bills of exchange and ascertaining commissions. The book catalog is arranged in sections: political and historical (beginning with Machiavelli's The Prince), letters, ceremonial, military instruction, poetry, agriculture. Also includes a number of blank leaves, and several containing conversion tables.

Contents:

1. f.1r-63v: Della Torre, Giovanni Battista. Qualità di ogni sorte di moneta d'oro e argento.
2. f.65r-81v: Gondi, Filippo. Del modo di fare gli arbitrii ....
3. f.101v-103r: Catalog of 140 books, presumably of Filippo Gondi's library.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Title and attribution of first work from f. 1r and 53v.
Title and attribution of second work from f. 65r.
Foliation: Paper, 106; [i], [1-105]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; [ii], 1-106, [xxiv], 1-86, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script in what appears to be the hand of Filippo Gondi, including the text of the first work (f. 53v).
Binding: Contemporary parchment with cloth ties. Edges of some leaves torn and fraying. Some oxidation of ink.
Origin: First work written in Naples in 1632 (inside upper cover; Zacour-Hirsch); second work written in Florence, dated 17 June 1648 (f. 66r).
A leaf from a dealer's catalogue and a two-page typewritten description are on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Filippo Gondi (inscription, recto of folio before f. 1). From the archives of the Medici-Gondi family of Florence.
Sold by Maggs Brothers, 1959.

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. 107 (Ms. Italian 72).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 314

Contributor:

Della Torre, Giovanni Battista.
Gondi, Filippo.

Related Work:

Della Torre, Giovanni Battista. Qualità di ogni sorte di moneta d'oro e argento.
Gondi, Filippo. Del modo di fare gli arbitrii.

OCLC:

155964353