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Farming accounts of a hospital’s vineyards, in Italian, manuscript on paper
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800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description
- Wine-making, Italy.
44 leaves (20 blank), 286mm. by 208mm., a few leaves missing (perhaps blanks), written in brown ink in various notarial bookhands, contemporary binding of limp vellum with fold-over flap with toggle and catch (the latter replaced), paper pastedowns with a table of contents inside upper cover, a decorative ‘M’ below a cross drawn on both covers, rather battered, in a marbled fitted case, vellum spine
Catalogue Note
From the gastronomic library of Hroar Dege, his MS.7. It comprises the annual accounts of a medieval hospital, prepared in the name of its prior Antonio Giacomo, in the wine-growing region of Chianti. There are detailed records of sales of wine from vineyards in Casamonte, Catignano, Bagelata, Legiadro, and elsewhere, as well as transactions involving grain, meat, fish, fruit, olive oil, and other sources of income, including bridge tolls, and expenses, including itemised wage bills of the farm workers.