Franklin

[Notebook of Giomi debtors and creditors].

Publication:
[Italy], 1568-1581.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
96 leaves : paper ; 203 x 138 mm bound to 208 x 141 mm + 4 notes
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Subjects:
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Textile industry.
Accounting.
Italy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Accounts.
Credit records.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Notebook of debtors and creditors of Cosimo Giomi for the years 1568-1581. 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 Giovanni di Francesco Francini; Giovanni Nicholini; Polito Lioni; Michelangelo da Gagliano; Cosimo di Giovanni; Lorenzo Ganuzzi; and Marco Colombini. There are also frequent cash transactions with a wool worker, referred to in the text as Battista lanino.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation partial and irregular.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Tete humaine 15614 (Lucca, 1445), but with curlier hair and a pointier nose.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 266 on spine; the heading Cosimo Giomi 1568-1581 on upper cover (part of upper cover missing); lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1568 (f. 1v) and 1581 (f. 91v).
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 350).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1431
OCLC:
311551643