Annual accounting sheet recording business transacted during 1589 on behalf of Bartolomeo Corsini by an agent in Italy [manuscript].

Milan?, December 1589.

1 sheet ; 34 x 44 cm

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Italy.

FAST ACC 271273 (flat)

Purchase made possible by The B. F. Saul Rare Book Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: [CORSINI, Bartolomeo.] [Annual accounting sheet recording business transacted during 1589 on behalf of Bartolomeo Corsini by an agent in Italy.] [Milan?, December 1589.] Manuscript, ink on single sheet of paper. Large folio (approx. 34 x 44cm) [1] page in Italian, postally used with verso penned with address panel to “Bartolomeo Corsini ... Londra,” endorsed as having arrived in London 23 February 1589 [i.e. 1590], old folds, paper uncut, very good. A scarce example of sixteenth century mercantile accountancy, this sheet was sent to the prominent London-based Florentine merchant Bartolomeo Corsini (1545-1613) from an agent in Italy, most probably Milan. Penned in two totalled columns (for debtors and creditors) it records, in itemized detail, business transacted on Corsini’s behalf during the course of 1589. Sales include baize and hemp, much in demand for rope and sailmaking. Gold was sent to the heirs of Mathia Lederer in Cologne. Spun cloth was sent to Hamburg and transported by Volpi (Milan) and Raimondi (Volpi’s agent in Cologne). Several transactions with Jeronimo Cipolletto in Cremona are recorded. Another entry concerns money owed by Giovanni Pietro Daverio for baize from Coggeshall, an Essex village known for cloth production in the sixteenth century. Details of some customs charges are also listed. Provenance: Corsini archive." Ordered from Samuel Gedge D9306, 2019-05-29, Cat. 28 #3.