[Ledger of San Jacopo accounts].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Concini family.

Accounting--Italy--17th century.

Accounting.

Farm management--Italy.

Farm management.

Farm life--Italy--History.

Farm life.

Plague--Early works to 1800.

Plague.

History.

Italy--Rural conditions.

Italy.

Rural conditions.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Physical Description:

46 leaves : paper ; 340 x 238 mm bound to 360 x 248 mm

Place of Publication:

[Terranuova Bracciolini], 1630-1636.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts for the estate attached to the Priory of San Jacopo, located in Pian di Radice, Terranuova Bracciolini, property of the Concini family, probably written by the farm manager of the estate. It includes very detailed accounts of the everyday transactions that result from the management of the farm: examples of such transactions include the purchase of feed for the animals (including hay and acorns); the sales of wine and oil to individuals and other farms; revenue derived from donations to the priory; and an accurate record of births and deaths of farm animals and their value, should they be sold. The unnamed manager of the farm, who writes in the first person, gives also information about gifts that he gives to friends of the Concini family when they come and visit the farm; the food served to various clergymen who come to the priory; the expenses the estate incurs during religious celebrations (including the celebration of Sant'Agata); and the produce that he sends to the Concini in Florence (typically wine and oil). The ledger was partly compiled during the outbreak of bubonic plague of 1630-1633 and there is a small number of accounts related to the animals donated to the priory by dying farmers and of the expenses to pay undertakers to bury the dead (f. 8r). The present manuscript is smaller than the size of the original volume either covered by or planned for its binding and some leaves appear to be missing.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 46; rectos numbered 1-38, [39-46], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts involved in the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount received or disbursed.

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

Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a shield and a tower (?).

Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 59 and 14 and Prioria Concini on spine; the heading Giornale della prioria di Pian di Radice on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Origin: Written in Terranuova Bracciolini, Arezzo, between 1630 (f. 1r) and 1636 (f. 36r).

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. 95 (Ms. Lea 569).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1455

OCLC:

316346667