Details

Subjects:

Risaliti, Francesco.
Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Accounting.
Textile industry.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Francesco di Stefano Risaliti for the years 1550-1560. 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. Most transactions appear to be with various workers (farmers, carpenters, builders) but transactions with employees who operate in the wool and textile industry (especially dyers and spinners) are not uncommon. Transactions appear to be either payments for professional services or small loans.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 112; 1-6, 6-111; contemporary foliation in ink, upper left verso (f. 30-49, 99-104, 107-111 blank but foliated).
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. 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: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1550 (f. 1v) and 1560 (f. 106r).
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. 211 (Ms. Lea 333).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1410

OCLC:

310421162