Gondi Family Papers, 1418-1753.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Gondi family.

Language:

French

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medici, House of.

Ambassadors--Italy--17th century.

Ambassadors.

Ambassadors--Italy--18th century.

Accounting--Italy.

Accounting.

Farm management--Italy.

Farm management.

Farm life--Italy--History.

Farm life.

Inheritance and succession--Italy.

Inheritance and succession.

Dowry.

Real property.

Textile industry.

History.

Italy.

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

Real property--Italy--Florence.

Civil law--Italy.

Civil law.

Dowry--Italy.

Italy--Rural conditions.

Rural conditions.

Florence (Italy)--Foreign relations--France.

Florence (Italy).

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737.

Italy--Florence.

Genre:

Accounts.

Financial documents.

Notarial documents.

Legal documents.

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, French.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Physical Description:

9 boxes (141 folders)

Arrangement:

Arranged in 4 series: I. Individuals (2.5 boxes); II. Miscellaneous (.5 box); III. Filze (5 boxes); IV. Oversize (1 box).

Place of Publication:

1418-1753.

Language Note:

Italian, Latin, and French.

Summary:

Papers of members of the Gondi family, dealing with numerous aspects of their private lives (including correspondence between family members and with other Florentine and French aristocrats; wills and dowries; and real estate dealings); public positions (including diplomatic correspondence with the grand-ducal administration and the French court); and economic activities (including financial documents related to the textile and silk trade; commercial agreements with the Florentine guilds; records of loans; and farm management transactions) for the years 1418-1753. The documents that comprise the collection are divided into three series, the first dedicated to papers of individual family members, the second to documents grouped by topic, and the third to filze, miscellanies primarily of business documents. The papers of individuals, arranged alphabetically by name, then chronologically for each person, comprise documents pertaining to about 30 different Gondi family members, the most important being the senator and ambassador Giovanbattista Gondi, the grand-ducal officer Lorenzo Gondi, and the bankers Giuliano and Antonio Gondi. The Subjects series, arranged alphabetically by subject, and chronologically within each subject, is comprised, for the most part, of numerous kinds of financial documents (including accounts, receipts, orders, payments, etc.) related to manufacturing, textile and silk trade, and other commercial activities; other miscellaneous documents are related to different aspects of rural life and farm management. The Filze series consists of four disbound miscellanies arranged alphabetically by the letter that appears on the original binding of the filza. Within each filza, the gatherings are arranged according to the order and page number in which they were bound. The Oversize series consists of larger items pertaining to various members of the Gondi family (such as Giovanbattista and Federigo Gondi) as well as documents that were previously bound with the filze.

Notes:

Written on various sizes of paper, some with seals and remainders of seals.

Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.

Finding Aid/Index:

The documents associated with each member of the Gondi family have been cataloged at the individual level. The four disbound filze also have separate records. For a complete list of these records, search for the title Gondi Family Papers.

Cited in:

Includes materials from collections described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A (3), Library Chronicle 36 (1970), no. 2, p. 89-92, 99 (Ms. Lea 472, Ms. Lea 475, Ms. Lea 476, Ms. Lea 497).

Includes materials from collections 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. 3-5, 7-10, 12-13, 20, 22-23 (Ms. Lea 510, Ms. Lea 512, Ms. Lea 517, Ms. Lea 519, Ms. Lea 524, Ms. Lea 527, Ms. Lea 528, Ms. Lea 549, Ms. Lea 552, Ms. Lea 553).

Includes documents 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. 3-6, 9 (Ms. Lea 511, Ms. Lea 513, Ms. Lea 514, Ms. Lea 520).

OCLC:

668396268