[Ledger of Concini debtors and creditors and miscellaneous accounts].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

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

Genre:

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

Physical Description:

320 leaves : paper ; 434 x 286 mm bound to 456 x 304 mm + 1 note

Place of Publication:

[Terranuova Bracciolini], 1629-1631.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of miscellaneous accounts of Arrigo Concini for the years 1629-1631. Accounts are mostly related to the farms Il Ponticino and La Croce, located in Terranuova Bracciolini, property of Arrigo Concini. The ledger contains very detailed accounts of the everyday transactions that result from the management of the farms, including the purchase of feed for the animals (including hay and acorns); the sales of wine and oil to individuals and other farms; and an accurate record of births and deaths of farm animals and their value, should they be sold. There are also accounts related to the very diversified production of the farms, which included wine and oil; beans (fava, cicerchie, lupini and borlotti); cereal (wheat, barley, and flax-seed); meat and cheese (swine, chickens, pigeons, beef, veal, lambs, sheep and sheep's cheese) and assorted produce (fresh fruit, vegetables, and dried figs). Accounts concerning the payment of the workers and servants of Arrigo Concini who worked in his farms are also present and the names that appear throughout the ledger include Vergilio Casini and Benedetto Bonechi (both farmers); Bartolo Rossi; Carlo Cennini; Andrea Canerini; Giulio Boldrini; Filippo Fabbrini; and Bernardo Giuliani. Workers and farmers were often paid in kind (mostly with animals and produce). Miscellaneous accounts related to the sale or purchase of textile products, including wool and house linens, and to the inheritance left to the family by Bartolomeo Concini (who died in 1578), are also present.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Pagination: Paper, i + (contemporary paper) + 320; versos numbered i-cccx, [cccxi-cccxx], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], 1-310, [311-319], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the 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, covered with cloth, originally red, now very faded; no. 86 and Arrigo Concini 1629 on spine. Lower cover wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
• Origin: Written in Terranuova Bracciolini between 1629 (f. 1r) and 1631 (f. 301v).
• 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. 93-94 (Ms. Lea 563).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1511.

OCLC:

320540386

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