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Medici, House of. Filza XII de signori Medici segnata con la lettera M, 1340-1666.

Title: Filza XII de signori Medici segnata con la lettera M, 1340-1666.

Miscellany of approximately 200 (largely original, but with some copies) legal and notarial documents, trial proceedings, accounts, and inventories, concerning the affairs of various members of Florentine families, including the Medici, the Arrigucci, the Altoviti and the Risaliti. Most of the documents contained in the filza concern legal matters of some kind, and can be divided into three broad categories, according to which areas of law they fall into: inheritance law, civil law, and commercial law. Among the last group is a document concerning a large debt owed by the Monte di Pietà and two private investors, Bartolomeo Corsini and Jacopo Ricciardi, to a Jewish ambassador, Juda Lullo, who had been received at the Medicean court. Credit records of transactions between members of the various families engaged in the textile trade are quite frequent. The filza also contains some accounts of the everyday transactions that result from the management of the various farms that composed the Medici estate.

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Medici, House of. Filza IV de signori Medici segnata con la lettera C, 1219-1735.

Title: Filza IV de signori Medici segnata con la lettera C, 1219-1735.

Collection of legal, notarial (f.i recto-259v), and financial (f.250r-550v) documents pertaining to the affairs of numerous members of the Medici family, as well as their interactions with other Florentine aristocrats (in particular with the Arrigucci, the Antinori, the Guicciardini, and the Altoviti) and with the Church and its local representatives. The majority of the financial documents pertain to the large real estate of the Medici family, both in Florence and in its surrounding areas, such as the Mugello Valley. Numerous farms, pieces of land, and houses, property of Alamanno, Francesco, Vincenzo, Silvestro, Carlo, and other Medici, are described, sometimes in great detail. In certain cases, inventories of the furniture, tools, and utensils belonging to each property are also present; for farms, there are frequent memoranda, notes, and accounts pertaining to production and harvesting, together with credit records of the sale and purchase of produce, instruments, and materials. A brief description and history of the castle of Monte Giovi, outside Florence, is also present. The legal and notarial documents are largely related to the relationship between the Medici family and members of the local clergy. The Medici were heavily involved in many aspects of social and religious life in Florence, including the celebration of the mass; the organization and management of hospitals (referred to as spedali or ospedali, charitable institutions run by nuns or priests and funded both by the Church and by local noblemen, whose mission was to help the pauper); and the election of some of the leaders of the dioceses and other prelates. A large number of documents contain detailed information on these activities, emphasizing the important role held by Andrea, Bernardo, and Alamanno de' Medici in balancing temporal and secular power within the city of Florence. Other miscellaneous documents contained in this collection include accounts concerning a textile business owned by Carlo de' Medici; a letter by the Grand-duke Ferdinando II appointing a Jacinto Mannelli captain of a compagnia, a military division of roughly 200 soldiers.

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VOL. VII. The names of the writers follow: Manfredi Macinghi.-Giovanni Pietro Maffei.-Mario Maffei.-Carlo Malatesta.-Lionardo Malespini.-Pier Agnolo Mannucci.-Il Vescovo di Reggio [Benedetto Manzoli].-Bartolommeo Maranta.-Fibio Maranta. -Giovanni Bat...

Title: VOL. VII. The names of the writers follow: Manfredi Macinghi.-Giovanni Pietro Maffei.-Mario Maffei.-Carlo Malatesta.-Lionardo Malespini.-Pier Agnolo Mannucci.-Il Vescovo di Reggio [Benedetto Manzoli].-Bartolommeo Maranta.-Fibio Maranta. -Giovanni Bat... Unspecified

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COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating largely to military and political events in the first half of the 17th century in Italy and elsewhere; 1594-1643. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Partly printed. Contemporary index of contents (ff. 1-2). Owned ...

Title: COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating largely to military and political events in the first half of the 17th century in Italy and elsewhere; 1594-1643. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Partly printed. Contemporary index of contents (ff. 1-2). Owned ... Unspecified

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Medici, House of. Filza X de signori Medici segnata con la lettera K, 1509-1701.

Title: Filza X de signori Medici segnata con la lettera K, 1509-1701.

Collection of legal and business documents pertaining to the affairs of numerous members of the Medici family and their relationship, often tumultuous, with other aristocratic families (including the Altoviti; the Risaliti; the Gianfigliazzi; the Guadagni; the Quaratesi; the Samminiati; the Ceccherini; the Capponi; and many others); Florentine merchants (especially those belonging to specific guilds, such as the Arte della seta, also known as Arte di Porta Santa Maria, the Arte del cambio, and the Arte della lana); and local and Italian banks and financial institutions (including the Medici Capponi bank and the Florentine mint, as well as the Monte di pietà). The majority of the items are legal documents, in particular trial proceedings and associated notes, petitions, letters, and complaints, for the many prolonged lawsuits the families brought against either their own relatives or business counterparts. Among these trials, some of the longest and most complex are the one between the heirs of Bernardo de' Medici, Carlo and Alamanno, over the possession of a silver cross with an encased relic, supposedly wood from the Holy Cross (1602); of various members of the Gianfigliazzi family against Vincenzo de' Medici (1658) for multiple unpaid debts, including part of the dowry for his wife, Smeralda Gianfigliazzi; between Andrea de' Medici and Benedetto Quaratesi, (1619) who had allegedly been promised that Andrea would cover the payment of his dowry, as well as offer him a generous share of the profits of the silk workshop he owned (Andrea disputed this agreement once Quaratesi got married); and between the city of Florence and the Monte di pietà against the bankers Neri Capponi and Andrea de' Medici (1630), concerning tax collection and payment, and miscellaneous debts. Sometimes appeals to or involvement of the Grand-dukes also occurred during the trials. The financial documents in the manuscript, which include accounts, credit records, memoranda, receipts, and reports, concern many crucial areas of the Florentine economy, ranging from guilds and their activities (primarily trade and manufacture), to banking (with particular attention to the Medici Capponi bank and its financial operations in Italy and in various European markets), to small businesses, like stores and workshops. In certain cases genealogical information about a specific family is given. Other miscellaneous documents pertain to sale, purchase, and lease of real property in Florence and in the surrounding areas; petitions; and reports concerning farm management and produce harvest.

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Medici, House of. Filza V di scritture de signori Medici segnata con la lettera E, 1413-1698.

Title: Filza V di scritture de signori Medici segnata con la lettera E, 1413-1698.

Collection of miscellaneous legal, financial, and notarial documents concerning the affairs of numerous members of the Medici (in particular the heirs of Bernardo de' Medici, whose complicated will and consequent devolution of property is discussed at length in multiple financial and notarial documents) and other Florentine families, such as the Capponi, the Mannelli, the Salviati, the Ridolfi, the Ricasoli, the Detti, the Cappelli, the Betti, and others. Documents pertaining to sale and purchase of textile products, as well as debts and credits with Tuscan, Italian (from Pisa, Venice, Genoa, Pistoia, Pietrasanta, and Messina), and Spanish (from the kingdom of Naples) investors, all involving the Medici, are also present the collection. Most of the legal documents are receipts (referred to as fedi) for payments of small amounts of cash for taxes and other duties. Brief accounts of two trials, one for murder and another for attempted murder, as well as other documents dealing with prisoners and ex-prisoners who were the recipients of charitable donations, are scattered throughout the filza. A small number of other legal documents concern bird hunting regulations for the Florentine region in the 17th century.

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POLITICAL TRACTS relating to the Papal Court; circa 1554-1610. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) discourse (art. 1, ff. 1-96v) relating to the Court of Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone, dedicated to Girolamo Savorgnan (or Savorgn...

Title: POLITICAL TRACTS relating to the Papal Court; circa 1554-1610. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) discourse (art. 1, ff. 1-96v) relating to the Court of Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone, dedicated to Girolamo Savorgnan (or Savorgn... Unspecified

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Medici, House of. Filza XIII de signori Medici segnata con la lettera N, 1358-1703.

Title: Filza XIII de signori Medici segnata con la lettera N, 1358-1703.

Miscellany of approximately 150 (largely 16th- and 17th-century copies, but with some originals) notarial and legal documents, inventories, accounts, and real estate deals, covering the years 1370-1693, concerning the affairs of various members of Florentine families, predominantly the Medici, but also the Altoviti, the Lapini, the Guicciardini, and the Capponi. The legal documents contained in the manuscript mostly concern unpaid or partially paid debts. Among the other areas touched on are inheritance law and commercial law. The filza also contains a particular kind of notarial documents, referred to as prove di nobiltà, written for the admission of individuals to the military religious order of the Knights of Malta.

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ORIGINAL letters of members of the family of Medici of Florence; 19 Sept. 1483-22 July, 1741. 1. Laure[n]tius de Medicis Mag[istr]is P[at]ribus hon[oratis] Officialibus Balie Rei P[ublic]e; Pisa, 19 Sept. 1483. Ital. f. 5. 2. Petrus [II.] d[e] Medici...

Title: ORIGINAL letters of members of the family of Medici of Florence; 19 Sept. 1483-22 July, 1741. 1. Laure[n]tius de Medicis Mag[istr]is P[at]ribus hon[oratis] Officialibus Balie Rei P[ublic]e; Pisa, 19 Sept. 1483. Ital. f. 5. 2. Petrus [II.] d[e] Medici... 19 Sep 1483-22 Jul 1741

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