Libro spese nella mishmarah delli S[ignori?] Lustro Rovigo, Salamon d'Abr[am] Usigli e Leon Fano.

Abstract:

One year's worth of expenses of a mishmarah (confraternity committed to making visits or night watches before important events) recorded by Lustro Rovigo, Salamon d'Abram Usiglio, and Leon Fano, three members of leading Jewish families of Modena. The first section consists of 243 numbered entries for expenses entered in chronological order between March 1766 and March 1767. This is followed by nine sections representing categories of expenses, such as annual, semiannual, and quarterly salaries (for roles such as cantor and organizer) and ordinary and extraordinary expenses. In each of the expense categories, entries from the first section are listed in numerical order by their entry number. A table of contents at the front lists the sections (f. i recto) and each entry in the first section has had a number added below its entry number corresponding to the folio where that entry appears in an expense category. A note laid into the manuscript dated 13 November 1766 calculates the difference between an amount connected with Leon Fano and the expenses up to that point, through entry 168 (between folios 8 and 9).

Creator:

Rovigo, Lustro.

Timespan:

Italy.; Modena (Italy); Italy -- Modena.

Date:

1766

Identifier:

9976538313503681; (OCoLC)1138084078; (OCoLC)on1138084078; (PU)7653831-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Bloomsbury Auctions (London), 23 February 2017, as part of lot 59.

Publisher:

[Modena], 1766-1767.

Subject:

Confraternities -- Italy -- Modena -- Early works to 1800.; Accounting -- Italy -- 18th century.; Accounting.; Confraternities.; Jews -- Italy -- Modena -- History -- Sources.; History.; Jews.; Manuscripts, European.; Sources.; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 18th century.; Codices (bound manuscripts); Account books.; Early works.; Manuscripts, Italian -- 18th century.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

48 leaves : paper; 182 x 135 mm bound to 182 x 140 mm + 1 note

Personal Name:

Usiglio, Salamon d'Abram.; Fano, Leon.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Origin: Written in Modena (home city of the Rovigo, Usiglio, and Fano families), 1766-1767.; Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) pasteboard, with inscription in ink: Dalle 11 marzo 1766 alle 30 [marzo] 1767 / Dal primo Nisan 5526 a tutto Adar 5527 / Libro spese nella mishmarah delli [Signori?] Lustro Rovigo, Salamon d'Abram Usigli e Leon Fano.; Title from cover title; the word mishmarah is written in Hebrew characters.; Collation: Paper, 48; 1-3¹⁶; [i], 1-37, [38-47 (40-47 blank)]; early foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in cursive script, possibly by multiple hands.; Layout: Quarto format.; Ms. codex.; Italian with words and names in Hebrew throughout.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 2038