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This memorandum book of a Florentine grain dealer contains entries made in a variety of hands, possibly those of the buyers, with entries for payment for grain, rent, taxes, alms, and other income. The number of entries for each year is small. This account book is characteristic of the type used when Palioli created his treatise on double entry bookkeeping. The book designates Biagio Dicino dalle Vanna as the official recorder of transactions and also mentions other members of his family. The entries are dated from 1466-1524, but leaves with entries for 1473-1475, 1495, and 1501-1503 are missing.
Support: Paper; Extent: 94; 108 x 143 mm bound to 117 x 143 mm; Foliation: Contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; 1-5, 7, 10-15, 17, 19-30, 35-44, 48-79, 81-94 (gaps due to missing leaves, except for a foliation error omitting 80); Collation: 1 (16, -1 -7 -9 -10), 2 (16, -1 -3 -16), 3 (16, -1 -2 -3 -14 -15 -16), 4-5 (16), 6 (14)
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These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Florence, Italy
Mid-15th to early 16th centuries
Limp parchment wrapper with flap on front cover fore edge
Italian
Purchased, possibly from Otto Ranschburg, date unknown
Florence, Italy
Mid-15th to early 16th centuries
Italian
Purchased, possibly from Otto Ranschburg, date unknown
This memorandum book of a Florentine grain dealer contains entries made in a variety of hands, possibly those of the buyers, with entries for payment for grain, rent, taxes, alms, and other income. The number of entries for each year is small. This account book is characteristic of the type used when Palioli created his treatise on double entry bookkeeping. The book designates Biagio Dicino dalle Vanna as the official recorder of transactions and also mentions other members of his family. The entries are dated from 1466-1524, but leaves with entries for 1473-1475, 1495, and 1501-1503 are missing.
Mercantesca
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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