Raggualgio delle piazze de cambi e moneta

Timespan:

1421-1737

Date:

1632

Description:

Consists of two treatises dealing mostly with financial matters. Also contains a short book catalog at the end. First work is a treatise on coinage and exchange rates, also on bills of exchange and other financial matters. Has an alphabetical index at the end. Second work is a treatise on the method of making arbitrage on bills of exchange and ascertaining commissions. The book catalog is arranged in sections: political and historical (beginning with Machiavelli's The Prince), letters, ceremonial, military instruction, poetry, agriculture. Also includes a number of blank leaves, and several containing conversion tables.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Filippo Gondi (inscription, recto of folio before f. 1). From the archives of the Medici-Gondi family of Florence.; Sold by Maggs Brothers, 1959.

Subject:

Gondi, Filippo Library; Acceptances; Bills of exchange; Coinage

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); book catalogs; treatises; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

106 leaves : paper; 323 x 226 (265 x 160) mm bound to 328 x 228 mm

Geographic Subject:

Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Economic aspects

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-63v: Della Torre, Giovanni Battista. Qualità di ogni sorte di moneta d'oro e argento. -- 2. f.65r-81v: Gondi, Filippo. Del modo di fare gli arbitrii .... -- 3. f.101v-103r: Catalog of 140 books, presumably of Filippo Gondi's library.; Title from spine.; Title and attribution of first work from f. 1r and 53v.; Title and attribution of second work from f. 65r.; Foliation: Paper, 106; [i], [1-105]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; [ii], 1-106, [xxiv], 1-86, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in a cursive script in what appears to be the hand of Filippo Gondi, including the text of the first work (f. 53v).; Binding: Contemporary parchment with cloth ties. Edges of some leaves torn and fraying. Some oxidation of ink.; Origin: First work written in Naples in 1632 (inside upper cover; Zacour-Hirsch); second work written in Florence, dated 17 June 1648 (f. 66r).; A leaf from a dealer's catalogue and a two-page typewritten description are on file in the Library.; Italian.; Related Work: Della Torre, Giovanni Battista. Qualità di ogni sorte di moneta d'oro e argento.; Related Work: Gondi, Filippo. Del modo di fare gli arbitrii.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 314