Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Biography/History:

Farmer of the estate attached to the Priory of San Jacopo, property of Arrigo Concini. Continued to work in the farm and acted as farm manager after the death of Arrigo Concini, in 1631.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts for the Priory of San Jacopo, located in Piano di Radici, Terranuova Bracciolini, Arezzo, property of Arrigo Concini, written by Vergilio di Giorgio Casini da Tirli, farm manager of the estate. It includes very detailed accounts on the everyday transactions that result from the management of the farm, such as the purchase of feed for the animals, the sales of wine and oil to individuals and other farms, the expenses required to furnish the house or to replace broken pieces of furniture, or those necessary to shoe or medicate horses. The author also gives information about donations made to friends of the Concini family when they come and visit the farm, and of the produce that he sends to the Concini family house in Florence (typically wine, oil, poultry and eggs).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 175; [i], 1-153, [154-174]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (leaves 154-174 are blank but ruled).
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts involved in the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount received or disbursed. Sometimes 3 columns or long lines are also used.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands, including that of Vergilio Casini.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a sun and a circle.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 66 and 11 and Giornale della fattoria di Terranuova del signor Arrigo on spine; the heading Giornale della fattoria di Terranuova and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Terranuova Bracciolini, Arezzo, between 1629 (f. 1r) and 1635 (f. 146v).
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. 94 (Ms. Lea 564).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1467

OCLC:

317712958