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Senate House Library, University of London

Taxation in Florence and Pisa


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 15

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Taxation in Florence and Pisa

Date(s): 1544-1579

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 126 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Cosimo de Medici, Duke of Florence from 1537 until his death in 1574, was head of the Florentine Republic, and was assisted in its government by the senate, the assembly and the council. Pisa, intermittently under Florentine control since 1406, was reconquered and occupied by them in 1509.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing three documents relating to communal tolls/taxation of the Italian city states of Florence and Pisa, 1554-1579.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Italian

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript sextodecimo Bound in vellum.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Public finance | Finance
Taxation | Fiscal policy | Finance

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Florence | Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Pisa | Italy | Western Europe | Europe