- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Corsini, Lorenzo (fl. 1581-1598)
- Title:
- Selected Business Correspondence of Lorenzo Corsini
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bc386j27t
- Dates:
- 1581-1598
- Size:
- 1 box, 0.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1
- Language:
- Italian
Abstract
Consists of sixteenth-century business correspondence of Italian textile merchant Lorenzo Corsini in Florence, Italy.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 92 letters, addressed to Corsini in Florence, Italy, from his agents and various merchants in Bologna, Genoa, Lucca, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Rome, Siena, and Venice. The letters contain financial and commercial information relating to Italian textile manufacture and trade. Many of the letters also contain examples of the various guild signs for Giroldi of Bologna, Strozzin of Venice, and others.
- Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Corsini
Lorenzo Corsini was a sixteenth-century Italian textile merchant. He controlled a family business which dealt in cloth and other textile commodities, and the importation of European goods.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
This collection was purchased from Julian Browning in 1998.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Selected Business Correspondence of Lorenzo Corsini; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bc386j27t
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1
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- Subject Terms:
- Guilds -- Italy. -- 16th century
Merchants -- Italy. -- 16th century -- Correspondence
Textile industry -- Italy -- History. -- 16th century -- Sources
Textile industry -- Italy. -- 16th century
Trading companies -- Italy. -- 16th century -- Correspondence - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 16th century
- Names:
- Corsini family.
- Places:
- Italy -- Economic conditions. -- 16th century