[Ledger of Concini receipts].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Italian

Subjects (All):

Concini family.

Concini, Giovanbattista.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

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

Textile industry.

Italy.

Genre:

ledgers (account books)

receipts (financial records)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century.

Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern) -- 15th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Physical Description:

196 leaves : paper ; 228 x 165 mm bound to 234 x 168 mm + 1 folder (3 notes)

Place of Publication:

[Florence], 1581-1600.

Language Note:

Italian, with Greek on flyleaves.

Summary:

Ledger with receipts of Giovanbattista Concini for the years 1581-1600. Includes the nature of a given transaction, usually a payment made by Giovanbattista Concini to a number of different counterparts, as well as the amount of the transaction. The counterparts, after receiving the sum of money they were owed, usually as a payment for their services, wrote a short receipt on the ledger, stating the amount they were given and the reason of the payment, and signed and dated it. Most of the counterparts were professionals who worked for the Concini family (including farmers, bakers, various textile workers, dyers and manufacturers, builders, decorators, carpenters and wood merchants, a sculptor, a glass-maker, a hotel manager, a kiln repairer, a spice merchant, and a jeweler) or business owners who purchased or sold small amounts of textile products from them. Other transactions, scattered throughout the ledger, were with members of some the most important families of Florence, with whom the Concini did business. Among such counterparts, the most important are Vincenzo Medici (f. 107v, f. 132r, f. 154r, f. 154v, and f. 169v); Filippo Giunta (f. 142v, f. 166r, and f. 189v); Antonio Gondi (f. 95v and f. 97v); Gregorio Pagani, a painter (f. 119r and f. 141v); Filippo and Antonio Salviati (respectively f. 49v and f. 55v); and Jacopo Chiti (f. 134v). Transactions with Florentine institutions such as the Spedale of Santa Maria Novella (f. 8r), the Spedale of Santa Maria degli Innocenti (f. 15v, f. 20v, f. 28r, f. 34v, f. 36r) and the company in charge of the Cappella della Trinità (f. 32r). Transactions where money is sent to the Concini house in Florence from the farms of San Jacopo and Terranuova are also present, and this is usually the result of the sale of produce, wine or oil. Flyleaves are made from a paper fragment of a late 15th-century manuscript written in Greek that contains a passage from Book 8 of Paul of Aegina. 3 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, i (paper) + 196 + i (paper); [1], 2-89, 89-195, contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (some versos have the same numeral as the recto).

Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts and the settlement date, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Receipts written in long lines.

Script: Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.

Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a bird (perhaps an eagle) on a shield.

Binding: Contemporary vellum, Ricevute 1581-1600 on spine; the heading Ricevute 1581-1600, Giovanbattista Concini, letter B with decorative penwork, and no.2 della filza on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.

Origin: Written in Florence between 1581 (f. 1v) and 1600 (f. 142r).

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 558).

Cited as:

Ledger of Concini Receipts (Ms. Codex 1482). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

318650855