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, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Francesco di Stefano Risaliti for the years 1559-1566. 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. Many transactions appear to be with employees who operate in the wool and textile industry (especially dyers and spinners), who are paid for their services; but transactions with various workers (farmers, carpenters, builders) are also present. Other transactions are related to debts and credits between Francesco di Stefano Risaliti and business counterparts and members of the Florentine aristocracy, the most important being Luca Salvucci; Jacopo Amatucci; Antonio Risaliti; and Filippo Salviati. Some of these transactions appear to be loans of money to finance the development of textile businesses. The back flyleaf is a vellum leaf from a mid-12th-century manuscript from Italy, and is written in transitional script (or protogothic script). It contains a passage from a Latin commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Thessalonians, with the quotations from the epistle in red ink.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 192 + i (parchment); versos numbered [1], 2-116, [117-192], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-cxvi, [cxvii-cxci], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (pages 117-192 blank). Each opening has a matched Arabic numeral on the left and a Roman numeral on the right.
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.
Script: Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Aigle 89 (Florence, 1501)
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 257 on spine; the heading Libro di debitori e creditori, no. 68 and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather strap; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1559 (p. 1) and 1566 (p. 108).
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 335).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1413

OCLC:

310421096