Details

Subjects:

Detti, Giammaria.
Detti, Giovanbattista.
Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy).
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Dyes and dyeing -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Woolen and worsted manufacture -- Italy -- History.
Wool industry -- History -- Italy.
Wool industry.
History.
Woolen and worsted manufacture.
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 1553-1561. Giovanbattista and Giammaria Detti were both members of the Arte della lana, 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) who were paid for their services. When recording these transactions, information about the various phases of wool manufacturing is also present, often described in great detail. Debts and credits with members of aristocratic Florentine families are also not uncommon and the ledger often includes the nature of such transactions and their amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that act as counterparts, the most important being Piero and Francesco Risaliti; Alessandro Antinori; Jacopo di Riccialbani; Alessandro Rucellai; Federico de' Ricci; and Bartolomeo and Romano Martelli.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary parchment) + 240 + i (contemporary parchment); [1], 2-69, [70], 71-156, 156-203, [204-239], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper left verso (f.204-217 and 232-239 blank but ruled).
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Sometimes long lines are also used.
Script: Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleche 6299 (Florence, 1518-28).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 229 on spine; the heading Quadernaccio, no. 163, signet D and letter B with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather straps; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1553 (f. 2r) and 1561 (f. 203r).
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 329).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1402

OCLC:

310376441