Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, Camillo de'.
Detti, Giammaria.
Detti, Giovanbattista.
Medici, House of.
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.
Archives.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of Camillo di Carlo de' Medici, Giammaria and Giovanbattista Detti for the years 1565-1568 written by Girolamo di Domenico Vanni. Camillo de' Medici, Giammaria and Giovanbattista Detti were 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 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. The ledger also contains records of expenses and revenues derived from the manufacture of textile products and their sale. However, debts and credits with members of aristocratic Florentine families are 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 Camillo and Ludovico delle Cerchia; Niccolo Bicci; Federigo de' Ricci; Giuliano Salvetti; Michele Landi; and Giovanni Acciaiuoli.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 96; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (f.24-83 and 90-96 blank but ruled).
Layout: Written in columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts involved, and the smaller one on the right with the amount received or disbursed.
Script: Written in a cursive script, in the hand of Girolamo di Domenico Vanni.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a decorated circle and a star.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 227 on spine; the heading Libro di entrata e di uscita, no. 171, signet D and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1565 (f. 1v) and 1568 (f. 89r).
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. 210-211 (Ms. Lea 331).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1404

OCLC:

310375175