Details

Subjects:

Risaliti, Francesco.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Dyes and dyeing -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
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 and accounts of Francesco di Stefano Risaliti for the years 1550-1557. 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 employees who operate in the wool and textile industry (especially dyers and spinners) who are paid for their services. Transactions with Florentine merchants including Pandolfo di Carlo de' Medici (f. 16r) and Giovanbattista Detti (f. 28v) and dyers, including Giovanbattista and Lionardo Salviati (f. 31v) also appear in the ledger.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 85; [i], 1-18, 29-63, 112-143; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry.
Script: Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5922 (Siena, 1495-1524), but with shorter, parallel sides.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 249 on spine; the heading Tintori e lavoratori, no. 63, letter A with decorative penwork and signet D on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Origin: Written in Tuscany between 1550 (f. 1r) and 1557 (f. 122v).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1966.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A (5), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), no. 2, p. 97 (Ms. Lea 575).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1453.

OCLC:

316335873

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