Details

Subjects:

Detti, Giammaria.
Detti, Giovanbattista.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Dyes and dyeing -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Dyes and dyeing.
Textile industry.
Accounting.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Accounts.
Credit records.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Giovanbattista and Giammaria Detti for the years 1547-1555. Giovanbattista and Giammaria Detti were both members of the guild of the lanaioli, merchants who dealt in woolen cloth and cooperated with the other corporations of bankers and merchants in the comune of Florence. The Detti, like other lanaioli, saw all the processes from the raw baled wool through the final cloth, woven at numerous looms scattered in domiciles throughout the city. The ledger reflects their various activities and mentions transactions with many different workers (including weavers, spinners and dyers). Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that hold the debt or credit, the most important being Matteo de 'Pazzi; Francesco Risaliti; Alessandro Antinori; Alessandro Rucellai; Federico de' Ricci; and Bartolomeo and Romano Martelli.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (parchment) + 208 leaves + i (parchment); 1-42, 42, [43], 44-148, 148-176, [177], 178-182, [183-189], 189, [190-205], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper left verso.
Script: Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Couronne 4835 (Lucca, 1565-1566).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 228 on spine; the heading Quadernaccio, no. 166, letter A with decorative penwork and signet D on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather strap; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1547 (f. 1v) and 1555 (f. 182r).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

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. 210 (Ms. Lea 327).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1399

OCLC:

308649771