Beinecke MS 570
Italy, 1628-1639
Account book of Tommaso Medici for the years 1628-1631, in Italian

First page	Sit nomen Domini benedictum in secula. A. Questo libro si e debitori e creditori  
*** del signor Bali Tommaso Medici.

The accounts deal with transactions concerning cattle, cereals, beans, wine, oil, and fertilizers; 
and they mention estates, business relations, stewards, labourers, servants etc. A single sheet is 
inserted dealing with  the years 1637-1639.


Paper, ff. I (paper) + 90 + I (paper), 425 x 280 mm., foliated with the same number on verso and 
facing recto. The last 23 folios are blank.

I-V 16, VI 14.

1 column.

Rapid Humanistic Cursive script.

Original register binding: white parchment wrappers with flap and four brown leather bands 
stitched with parchment strips onto spine and covers. 

Bequest of  Frederick Mortimer Clapp, 1970.

Albert Derolez

Updated 30.11.2007