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 1553-1558. 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). 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 Francesco di Stefano Risaliti; Mariotto d'Ottavio; and Camillo Zanossi.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 160; [1], 2-74, 78-99, [100-163]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f.100-163 are blank).
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. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Binding: Modern vellum; previous binding had no. 165 on contemporary slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Italy between 1553 (f. 1v) and 1558 (f. 95v).
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. 213 (Ms. Lea 346).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1427

OCLC:

310963372