[Notebook of Giomi debtors and creditors]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; 16th century

Date:

1568

Description:

Notebook of debtors and creditors of Cosimo Giomi for the years 1568-1581. 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, the most important being Giovanni di Francesco Francini; Giovanni Nicholini; Polito Lioni; Michelangelo da Gagliano; Cosimo di Giovanni; Lorenzo Ganuzzi; and Marco Colombini. There are also frequent cash transactions with a wool worker, referred to in the text as Battista lanino.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Subject:

Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century; Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800; Textile industry; Accounting

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); accounts; credit records; ledgers (account books); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

96 leaves : paper; 203 x 138 mm bound to 208 x 141 mm + 4 notes

Geographic Subject:

Italy

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation partial and irregular.; Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.; Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Tete humaine 15614 (Lucca, 1445), but with curlier hair and a pointier nose.; Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 266 on spine; the heading Cosimo Giomi 1568-1581 on upper cover (part of upper cover missing); lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.; Origin: Written in Italy between 1568 (f. 1v) and 1581 (f. 91v).; Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1431