[Notebook of Seccrani debtors and creditors].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Seccrani, Marco.

Seccrani, Parrino.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Italy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

46 leaves : paper ; 288 x 105 mm bound to 290 x 107 mm + 1 folder (2 notes).

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1543-1556.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Notebook of debtors and creditors of the brothers Marco and Parrino Seccrani, for the years 1543-1556. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that hold the debt or credit. Among the names that appear throughout the notebook are Agnolo Caciolli; Paolo Signorini; Michele and Baccio Corselli; and a miller called Lazzaro. Most transactions are related to farm and household management for the Seccrani estate, including the purchase of food for the house (examples include flour, sugar and various cuts of beef); the sale, purchase or receipt as payment in kind of cattle, poultry (hens, chickens, capons and roosters) and swine; and the payment of the wages of the employees of the Seccrani estate (the miller Lazzaro, a nanny, and a number of other individuals who helped the two brothers with the animals and the land). In the notebook there are also records of small sales of farm produce made by the Seccrani brothers and such transactions appeared to be settled in cash. 2 notes formerly laid in the manuscript are now in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 46; [1], 2-42, [43-46], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 3 columns with occasional vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Long lines are also used.

Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 165 on spine.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1543 (f. 1v) and 1556 (inside lower cover).

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. 212 (Ms. Lea 344).

Cited as:

Notebook of Seccrani Debtors and Creditors (Oversize Ms. Codex 1424). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

310962123