Raggualgio delle piazze de cambi e moneta.

Abstract:

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.

Timespan:

Florence (Italy) -- 1421-1737

Date:

1632

Identifier:

9915809363503681; (OCoLC)ocn155964353; (OCoLC)155964353; (PU)1580936-penndb-Voyager; (CStRLIN)PAUR95-A439

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

[Italy], 1632-1648.

Subject:

Acceptances.; Bills of exchange.; Coinage.; Book catalogs.; Codices.; Manuscripts, European.; Manuscripts, Italian.; Treatises.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

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

Personal Name:

Gondi, Filippo; Della Torre, Giovanni Battista. Qualità di ogni sorte di moneta d'oro e argento.; Gondi, Filippo. Del modo di fare gli arbitrii.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Title from spine.; A leaf from a dealer's catalogue and a two-page typewritten description are on file in the Library.; Origin: First work written in Naples in 1632 (inside upper cover; Zacour-Hirsch); second work written in Florence, dated 17 June 1648 (f. 66r).; Binding: Contemporary parchment with cloth ties. Edges of some leaves torn and fraying. Some oxidation of ink.; 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).; Ms. codex.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Oversize Ms. Codex 314