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Archivio dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore
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Description of the archival unit
Descriptive title: | Quaderno di ricordi del provveditore. (The administrator's personal notebook). |
Terminal dates: | 1432 May 28 - 1436 March 31 |
Physical description: | register, tall narrow format, 396x144 mm, bound with parchment covered boards with leather reinforcements, consisting of 38 paper leaves. The modern numeration comprises nn. 1-40 because the first two leaves are numbered on the front and back; in the coeval numeration they must have been cc. 3 and 4, cc. 1 and 2 having been lost. Another 5 original folios are probably missing between c. 37, where faint traces of the same number in old hand are visible, and the present c. 38, which is cited as 44 in the transcriptions made by D'Accone before the 1966 flood. |
Conservation: | The register shows traces of water damage (1966 flood), with consequent discoloration of ink. The cover is a modern restoration. Various leaves have been rubbed and eroded and partially reconstructed in the recent restoration; in some cases a layer of mud trapped between the original damaged paper and the restoration materials obscures the reading of the script. The original paper support has been completely lost in the following cases:
cc. 1-2 - lower half
cc. 3-4 - lower half
c. 5 - outer margin at mid-page, internal in lower half
c. 12 - internal part of leaf in lower half
c. 14 - inner margin in lower half
c. 16 - tear in central part of paper at mid-page; losses of inner margin for full height of leaf
c. 17 - inner half for the space of 7-8 lines at mid-page
c. 22 - piece of inner margin in lower page
c. 32 - large area of inner margin for full height of leaf
c. 33 - inner margin in upper half, outer margin at mid-page
c. 38 - outer margin in upper part, external half of leaf for rest of its height
c. 39 - increasing strip of outer margin from mid-page down
c. 40 - lower half for full width of leaf |
Language: | vernacular |
Person(s) accountable: | wardens of the Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore. |
Scribes: | the Opera administrators who succeeded each other in office: Bartolomeo d'Agnolo Ciai (in office from 1 January 1422/3 through 31 December 1423 and from 30 April 1432 through 30 April 1434) and Gualterotto di Jacopo Riccialbani (in office from 5 May 1432 through 31 December 1436; substituted from 22 April through 12 September 1435). |
Contents: | cc. 1-36v - brief notes of resolutions and allocations of the wardens recorded by the administrator Ciai, probably for his personal use, from 28 May 1432 to 30 April 1434 cc. 36v-37v - notes of his successor Riccialbani from 7 September 1434 to 31 March 1436 cc. 38-40 - notes recording the acts of the sacristy officials, only surviving documentation of the activity of this office, from 7 June 1432 to 17 March 1434, in the hand of the administrator Ciai |
Reproductions: | Details: digital images of the entire codex executed with low intensity ultraviolet light, Department for the Conservation of books and manuscripts of the Fachhochschule of Cologne, 1999. Full pages: digital high resolution color photographs of 5 sample pages, Perulli, 2003; of all the pages of the codex, Perulli, 2004. |
Editions: | Some acts appear in the following publications: Guasti 1857, Fabriczy 1907, Poggi 1909, D'Accone 1960, Haines 1983, Poggi 1988, Haines 2004. |
II 4 4 - Original reference texts
Annotations: | c. 28 at the top - "A dì 18 d'ottobre (1433) nell'Arte dei Maestri", followed by about a third of the page blank. After this there is a group of acts of 26 October 1433 annotated as having been done "nel uficio de' regholatori". |
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