Details

Subjects:

Salt industry and trade -- Italy.
Salt industry and trade.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Indexes.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Alphabetical index with 20 lettered tabs, containing names of individuals that appear in an unidentified ledger of accounts, probably concerning the payment of salaries. The names of the individuals that appear in the index include a large number of workers referred to either as fattori (farmers) or salani (salt workers). In certain cases, various members of the same family appear to be employed in the same kind of position. For each employee, the location where he works is also listed, and the places that appear in the index are Lucca and three small villages in its proximity, Carignano, Monsagrati, and Moriano.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 22; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a large shield with decorated edges, and the initials AB underneath.
Binding: Contemporary boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Italy, in 1792 (f. 1r).
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. 104 (Ms. Lea 509).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1558

OCLC:

430180201