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• A Florentine grain dealer's ledger

  RenegadeHealer > 29-07-2020, 07:41 PM

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  Citation: Florentine Grain Dealer Account Book, 1466-1524. (SPC) MSS BH 005 COCH
  
  Inspired by Helmut's comment about You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., I decided to do a deep dive into Google Images looking for medieval ledgers and trade books. I'm sure if I understood Italian that would be a big help, but somehow I still imagine I wouldn't be able to reliably transcribe this page into normal Roman letters and Arabic numerals. Especially the last line. Is this just my modern eye not used to a very different but commonly readable type of medieval script, or is this the intentional use of obfuscation to keep sensitive information private?

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  -JKP- > 29-07-2020, 07:58 PM

  Interesting document.
  
  Each year has fairly short notations, and each year is in different handwriting. But even though it's different handwriting, the different scribes used a similar format for the notations.

• RE: A Florentine grain dealer's ledger

  bi3mw > 30-07-2020, 10:04 AM

  For those who haven't found it yet, here is the link to the book.
  
  Florentine grain dealer account book:
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