[Ledger of Concini debtors and creditors].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Papino, Girolamo di.

Contributor:

Vestri, Michele, scribe.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Concini family.

Concini, Bartolomeo.

Concini, Lisabetta.

Concini, Margherita.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Textile industry.

Italy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Physical Description:

48 leaves : paper ; 334 x 231 mm bound to 338 x 236 mm

Place of Publication:

Terranuova Bracciolini, 1560-1564.

Language Note:

Italian.

Biography/History:

Secretary of Cosimo III and Ferdinando de' Medici. Special envoy of the Medici to Siena in 1555.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors for the estate located in Terranuova Bracciolini, Arezzo, property of Bartolomeo Concini, for the years 1560-1564, kept by the accountant Girolamo di Papino and recorded by Michele Vestri. 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 are Rocco di Mariano, Giovanni di Finosino, and Batista Bartolini. They are all workers or farmers on the Terranuova estate and they often paid their debts in kind (mostly with animals and produce). The names of Margherita and Lisabetta Concini also appear in the ledger among the debtors, but they settled their debts in cash. In certain cases, debts and credits regard the sale or purchase of textile products, including wool and house linens.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 48; rectos numbered [i], 1-47, contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-48, contemporary numeration in ink, upper left verso.

Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit and debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the debt or credit. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts are listed on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages on some cases.

Script: Written in a cursive script.

Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a decorated circle and a star.

Binding: Contemporary vellum, Libro Maestro del Sig. Bartolomeo Concini 1560 on spine; heading Debitori e creditori and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather strap; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Origin: Written in Terranuova, Arezzo, between 1560 (f. 1v) and 1564 (f. 2r).

Forms part of: Concini Papers.

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 (5), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), no. 2, p. 92 (Ms. Lea 556).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1444

OCLC:

316064887

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