IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/062
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CORSINI, PHILIP AND BARTHOLOMEW
Date(s): 1567-1990
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 80 production units.
Name of creator(s): Corsini | Philip | fl 1568-1600 | merchant
Corsini | Bartholomew | fl 1568-1600 | merchant
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Philip and Bartholomew Corsini were merchants from Florence, based in Gracechurch Street, London.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopies and microfilm copies of the correspondence of Philip and Bartholomew Corsini, Florentine merchants in London, 1568-1637. Also letters addressed chiefly to Francesco Venturini, merchant and banker, and his partner and successors, in Leghorn [Livorno}, 1663-1708, and to Angiolini and Frangini, merchants, and others, in Florence, 1701-1742.
Original items: only two original documents are held: a letter from Nov 1590 (CLC/B/062/MS22280A) and an insurance policy for a cargo (CLC/B/062/MS22281)
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Italian
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Copies were made of the correspondence when it was auctioned by Christie's Robson Lowe in 1984-1988.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
The original items are now in a private collection.
Related material:
See CLC/B/047 for the sales catalogues from the Corsini auction.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011. Updated May 2017.