Details

Subjects:

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.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Remnant of a notebook of accounts, perhaps belonging to the Medici family, covering the years 1561-1565. Mostly contains very brief annotations and calculations, sometimes including the name of the counterpart involved in the transaction. The names that appear in the notebook include Francesco Concini; Antonio Macario; Giuliano Crusdoni; Filippo Simoni; and an individual simply referred to as Canalino(?). The word tintore, dyer, appears throughout the notebook, perhaps indicating that the transactions are related to the textile business. The present manuscript, whose foliation starts with f. 48, was probably part of a larger volume, now missing.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 99; 48-94, [95-146]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 96-146 are blank).
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Binding: Four gatherings tied together, with a small label over spine with no.165 on it.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1561 (f. 48r) and 1565 (f. 92r).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

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 (3), Library Chronicle 36 (1970), no. 2, p. 98-99 (Ms. Lea 495).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1538

OCLC:

378262469