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Florentine documents and correspondence collection, 1437-1804.

Publication:
1437-1804.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
5 boxes (220 folders) : paper
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Arrangement:
Arranged in 2 series: I. Families and organizations (4 boxes); II. Subjects (1 box).
Subjects:
Acciaiuoli family.
Altoviti family.
Amadori family.
Antinori family.
Capponi family.
Cassi family.
Corsi family.
Corsini family.
Guadagni family.
Lapini family.
Riccardi family.
Rucellai family.
Salviati family.
Strozzi family.
Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy).
Monte di pietà (Florence, Italy).
Santa Maria Novella (Church : Florence, Italy).
Merchants -- Italy.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Accounting -- Italy -- 17th century.
Nobility -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Civil law -- Italy.
Civil law.
Farm life.
History.
Farm management.
Woolen and worsted manufacture.
Finance.
Dyes and dyeing.
Silk industry.
Ambassadors.
Taxation.
Banks and banking.
Iron industry and trade.
Textile industry.
Real property.
Marriage.
Nobility.
Accounting.
Merchants.
Italy.
Marriage -- Italy -- Florence.
Real property -- Italy -- Florence.
Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Iron industry and trade -- Italy.
Banks and banking -- Italy -- Florence -- Early works to 1800.
Taxation -- Italy -- Florence.
Law -- Italy -- Florence.
Law.
Italy -- Florence.
Ambassadors -- Italy -- Tuscany -- 16th century.
Ambassadors -- Italy -- Tuscany -- 17th century.
Silk industry -- Italy -- History.
Dyes and dyeing -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Finance -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Woolen and worsted manufacture -- Italy -- History.
Farm management -- Italy.
Farm life -- Italy -- History.
Italy -- Rural conditions.
Rural conditions.
Florence (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) -- Commerce.
Tuscany (Italy) -- Politics and government.
Italy -- Tuscany.
Form/Genre:
Notarial documents.
Genealogies (histories)
Accounts.
Statutes.
Credit records.
Legal documents.
Inventories.
Receipts (financial records)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
In Italian.
Summary:
Collection concerning Florentine families, organizations, trades, and industries covering the years 1437-1804. The documents that compose the collection are divided into two broad sections, one dedicated to families and organizations, and the other to subjects. The former, arranged alphabetically by name, then chronologically for each family or organization, features documents pertaining to about 130 among the most important Florentine families, as well as institutions such as the Monte di pietà and the hospital of Santa Maria Novella (referred to as Spedale). The families that are best-known in the collection include the Acciaiuoli, Altoviti, Antinori, Corsi, Corsini, Guadagni, Rucellai, Salviati, and Strozzi; the best-represented families in the collection are the Amadori, Capponi, Cassi, Lapini, and Ricciardi. A small number of documents containing information on 3 ships is also present. The latter, arranged alphabetically by subject, and chronologically within each subject, is comprised, for the most part, of numerous kinds financial documents (including accounts, receipts, orders, payments, etc.), and documents related to different aspects of rural life and farm management (such as the purchase of cattle and grains). Other subjects include the guilds of Florence, especially the one of the lanaoioli, wool workers, and that of the setaioli, silk weavers; iron trade; and business relations between Florence and England and Florence and the Netherlands.
Notes:
Written on various sizes of paper, some with seals and remainders of seals.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Finding Aid/Index:
Register and container list available from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
Cited in:
From collections 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. 85-89, 91-92, 99-100 (Ms. Lea 462, Ms. Lea 463, Ms. Lea 464, Ms. Lea 465, Ms. Lea 466, Ms. Lea 467, Ms. Lea 468, Ms. Lea 469, Ms. Lea 470, Ms. Lea 471, Ms. Lea 475, Ms. Lea 476, Ms. Lea 497, and Ms. Lea 498).
From collections described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A (4), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), no. 2, p. 4, 7-8, 12-13, 20-22 (Ms. Lea 512, Ms. Lea 517, Ms. Lea 527, Ms. Lea 528, Ms. Lea 549, Ms. Lea 550, Ms. Lea 551, Ms. Lea 553, and Ms. Lea 554).
OCLC:
471775803