Details

Subjects:

Concini family.
Concini, Bartolomeo.
Accounting -- Italy -- 17th century.
Farm life -- Italy -- History.
Farm management -- Italy.
Farm management.
Farm life.
History.
Accounting.
Italy -- Rural conditions.
Italy.
Rural conditions.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors and miscellaneous accounts related to the management of the estate attached to the Priory of San Jacopo, located in Piano di Radici, Terranuova Bracciolini, Arezzo, property of Bartolomeo Concini, for the years 1628-1633. Most of the accounts that appear in the ledger are related to the very diversified production of the estate. It included wine and oil; beans (fava, cicerchie, lupini and borlotti); cereal (wheat, vetch, and flax-seed); meat and cheese (swine, chickens, pigeons, beef, veal, and lambs) and assorted produce (fresh fruit, vegetables, and dried figs). The goods were sold or exchanged and part of the production was used for the compensation of workers. Debtors and creditors are either workers or farmers of San Jacopo, or business counterparts of the Concini family. There are also records of the rent that farmers paid to Bartolomeo to use his land, and it was usually partly in kind. A small number of expenses related to farm management (including material for repairs, farming tools, and horse care and medication) are also present. A note concerning a visit of Filippo Gondi, perhaps a family friend, is laid in the manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 111; versos numbered 1-101, [102-111], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], 1-101, [102-110] contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Some missing numbers added in pencil. Each opening has matched numerals on the left and right.
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.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a lion (?) and a crown.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 3(?)8 and Arrigo Concini 1628 on spine; heading Arrigo Concini 1629 in later hand on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Terranuova Bracciolini between 1628 (f. 1r) and 1633 (f. 76r).
Forms part of: Concini Papers.

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. 93 (Ms. Lea 561).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1464

OCLC:

317626521