[Ledger of Risaliti accounts].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Risaliti, Francesco.
• Accounting--Italy--16th century.
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800.
• Dyes and dyeing--Italy--Early works to 1800.
• Woolen and worsted manufacture--Italy--History.
• Wool industry--History--Italy.
• Wool industry.
• History.
• Woolen and worsted manufacture.
• Dyes and dyeing.
• Textile industry.
• Accounting.
• Italy.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• accounts
• credit records
• ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

160 leaves : paper ; 333 x 229 mm bound to 340 x 234 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1550-1558.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of Francesco di Stefano Risaliti for the years 1550-1558. Francesco di Stefano Risaliti appears to be a member of the guild of the lanaioli, merchants who dealt in woolen cloth and cooperated with the other corporations of bankers and merchants in the comune of Florence. The Risaliti, like other lanaioli, saw all the processes from the raw baled wool through the final cloth, woven at numerous looms scattered in domiciles throughout the city. The ledger reflects various activities and mentions transactions with many different workers (including weavers, spinners, dyers) who were paid for their services. When recording these transactions, information about the various phases of wool manufacturing is also present, often described in great detail. Records of transactions with artisans whose businesses were not related to wool manufacturing, such as leather and wax workers, are also present, but less frequent.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Pagination: Paper, i (parchment) + 160 leaves; versos numbered 1-113, 113-114, [115-160], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-cxiii, cxiii, cxiiii, 115-151, [152-158] upper right recto (leaves 152-158 are blank but ruled).
• Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction.
• Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
• Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleche 6299 (Florence, 1518-28).
• Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 250 on spine; the heading Quaderno di manifattori, no. 67, signet D and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather straps; decorative leatherwork on spine.
• Origin: Written in Italy between 1550 (f. 1v) and 1558 (f. 116r).
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 211 (Ms. Lea 332).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1405

OCLC:

310402580