01. Acknowledgement of debt in Hebrew

02. Receipt for books in Hebrew

03. Letter in Hebrew

04. The emir Husayn Mutafariqqa

05. Shaykh Muhammad

06. The Venetian Consul

07. Payment promise by Soliman Dombelli

08. Teschiera for the payment of 684 Spanish dollars

09. Arabic cover letter of a receipt of six sequins

10. Teschiera of six bales containing 600 goat skins

11. Notarial deed in Armenian script

12. Francesco di Marco Datini and company’s balle notebook

13. Testimony by Portuguese Jews about a bill of exchange

14. Translation of a Hebrew act concerning the inheritance of Ephraim Cohen in the Barbary states

15. Ship and caravan cargo from Syria to Genoa

16. Cargo from Alexandria (Egypt)

17. Register of foreign exchange operations and transfers of Francesco di Marco Datini and his partners in Barcelona

18. Chief accountant Matthäus Schwarz writes to Veit Hörl in Spain. Handwritten entry in the ‘common trade’ copy book (1524–34)

19. Tariffe Mercantili del Levante

20. ‘Re della China’. Compendio di geografia e statistica.

21. Book of accounts and exchange charges marked ‘A’, Del Vernaccia & Arrighi trading firm (1637–39)

22. Merchant’s declaration of the current exchange rates between Dutch and Smirnese coins

23. Journal of the deputation of the ship La Santissima Concezione captained by Sebastien Gay of Marseille

24. Attestatie (general witness testimony) notarial deed, drafted by notary Daniel Bredan

25. Contract between merchant Antonio de Lespaul and Jan Brouwer

26. Transaction for the purchase of silk for export abroad

27. Letter from Hernando de Morales in Lisbon, to Simón Ruiz in Medina del Campo

28. Royal Warrant from the infanta and regent, Juana de Austria

29. Inventarium mercium raubarum recuperatarum a navi naufragato in hoc portu, patronigiata per Joannem Fure

30. An inventory of the brigantino of Antonio Gusman with one bill of lading

31. Register of expenses and profits involved in the maintenance and furnishing of a ship for use in a court appeal

32. Trade fair notebook. Medina del Campo, 17 June 1584 to 7 August 1586

33. Novi Fair scrapbook or blotter (1641–42)

21. Book of accounts and exchange charges marked ‘A’, Del Vernaccia & Arrighi trading firm (1637–39)

Biblioteca Roncioniana, Prato: Caccini del Vernaccia Archive
section A, no. 183
SENDER: Ugolino Del Vernaccia and Alamanno Arrighi
PLACE OF DEPARTURE: Florence

This is the first register compiled by Ugolino Del Vernaccia when he began his activity as a merchant, at the age of 25, together with Alamanno Arrighi (Florence, 1620–1700), who also became a Florentine senator. The register is an elongated volume, originally bound in cowhide, in which Senator Del Vernaccia noted down both his accounting records and loans, as well as memories of a commercial nature, partially following the model of mercantile records already proposed by Luca Pacioli.

(Matteo Calcagni)

01. Acknowledgement of debt in Hebrew

02. Receipt for books in Hebrew

03. Letter in Hebrew

04. The emir Husayn Mutafariqqa

05. Shaykh Muhammad

06. The Venetian Consul

07. Payment promise by Soliman Dombelli

08. Teschiera for the payment of 684 Spanish dollars

09. Arabic cover letter of a receipt of six sequins

10. Teschiera of six bales containing 600 goat skins

11. Notarial deed in Armenian script

12. Francesco di Marco Datini and company’s balle notebook

13. Testimony by Portuguese Jews about a bill of exchange

14. Translation of a Hebrew act concerning the inheritance of Ephraim Cohen in the Barbary states

15. Ship and caravan cargo from Syria to Genoa

16. Cargo from Alexandria (Egypt)

17. Register of foreign exchange operations and transfers of Francesco di Marco Datini and his partners in Barcelona

18. Chief accountant Matthäus Schwarz writes to Veit Hörl in Spain. Handwritten entry in the ‘common trade’ copy book (1524–34)

19. Tariffe Mercantili del Levante

20. ‘Re della China’. Compendio di geografia e statistica.

21. Book of accounts and exchange charges marked ‘A’, Del Vernaccia & Arrighi trading firm (1637–39)

22. Merchant’s declaration of the current exchange rates between Dutch and Smirnese coins

23. Journal of the deputation of the ship La Santissima Concezione captained by Sebastien Gay of Marseille

24. Attestatie (general witness testimony) notarial deed, drafted by notary Daniel Bredan

25. Contract between merchant Antonio de Lespaul and Jan Brouwer

26. Transaction for the purchase of silk for export abroad

27. Letter from Hernando de Morales in Lisbon, to Simón Ruiz in Medina del Campo

28. Royal Warrant from the infanta and regent, Juana de Austria

29. Inventarium mercium raubarum recuperatarum a navi naufragato in hoc portu, patronigiata per Joannem Fure

30. An inventory of the brigantino of Antonio Gusman with one bill of lading

31. Register of expenses and profits involved in the maintenance and furnishing of a ship for use in a court appeal

32. Trade fair notebook. Medina del Campo, 17 June 1584 to 7 August 1586

33. Novi Fair scrapbook or blotter (1641–42)