[Ledger of Detti accounts and memoranda].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Detti, Giovanbattista.

Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy).

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

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

Dyes and dyeing--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Wool industry--History--Italy.

Wool industry.

History.

Woolen and worsted manufacture.

Dyes and dyeing.

Textile industry.

Accounting.

Italy.

Woolen and worsted manufacture--Italy--History.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Physical Description:

150 leaves : paper ; 333 x 223 mm bound to 350 x 235 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1557-1558.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of Giovanbattista Detti for the years 1557-1558. Giovanbattista Detti, spelled Deti in the manuscript, was 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 present manuscript contains mostly transactions concerning the payment of wool workers, who were not paid according to the time they worked, but according to the quantity of cloth (measured in panni) they made instead. There is also a small number of accounts related to the purchase of soaps, frequently used in certain phases of the manufacture of wool, especially scouring. Miscellaneous accounts related to small debts and credits, and short memoranda containing information on how a specific event led to a debt or credit are also present.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 150; 1-25, [26-76], 76-113, [114-149], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 2 or 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with the a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts involved, and the smaller one on the right with the amount received or disbursed. Memoranda written in long lines.

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

Decoration: Detti signet in ink (f. 1r).

Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Armoires Lion 1883 (Florence, 1529), but with the lion's snout more defined.

Binding: Modern cloth.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1557 (f. 1r) and 1558 (f. 109r).

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: Supplement A (4), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), no. 1, p. 16 (Ms. Lea 534).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1500

OCLC:

319865415