These books, di varia natura, occupy a place of his own, and were imposed by the particularities of the management or desired by the accounting, varying the Fondaco the Fondaco, according to the attitude of the latter. Their abundance was due to the fact that the largeness of the farm and multiplicity and variety of the facts that it concretavano demanded a thorough survey, with an accurate classification.
BOOK “ASKED”
The Book of asked was intended to accommodate all orders – i “asked”, note – purchase or supply of goods made by the company to the various markets of production. Upon receipt of the goods, was named the transporter and the date and, then, with a sign on the diagonal, barrata l’intera scrittura.
BOOK OF ESTIMATE OF MERCHANDISE
This notebook is a very special and one of the oldest Archives Datini. It was built in 1363 ad Avignone quando Francesco Datini, the beginning of his illustrious career he became a partner, in the second position, with the merchant Niccolò di Bernardo, with whom he had already had relationships by factor. This notebook is reserved for the registration and then the estimation of all goods purchased in the workshop of Giovanni da Prato.
BOOKS GABELLA
And to that of the wine of the flesh, in these books are recorded receivables and payables and expenses of its Gabella.
PAPERS OF REASONING
The Notebooks of reasoning are nothing more than the scriptures in preparation for the Secret books, containing the same subject matter, salvo i “pacts company”.
PAPERS OF MEMORIES
They are part of a further group of “memories” o “recollections”, so abundantly present in the bottom of Avignon, where the material is mixed and is found in Memorial, in Notebook costs of merchandise, in Notebooks cash, in Notebooks couriers, etc..
EXTRACTS OF ACCOUNT
It is personal bank statements of debts or credits for insurgents causes and different periods and make reference to the Memorial or the Big Book.
EXCERPT FROM DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
These are books or records which lists the debtors and creditors generally extracted from the Big Book or Memorial. These “stratti” o “digrossi”, as they were called, were made in the preparation of a balance or at least were the result of verifications made to closure of an exercise. To detect the n. 1163/2, the 1392-1400, but reserved for’ debtors, in which he reported the “bad” debtors, ie bad debts, in order to highlight them in an attempt to recover at least a part. Were included in this class of documents also “Copies of great books”, because, although for different objectives, were feeding of lots of debtors and creditors “extracts” from other books.
PAPERS OF BALANCES OF REASON
Similar to extracts debtors and creditors, well as records of these notebooks can be considered preparatory to the Book Secret. In fact we recognize actuarial gains, extracts debtors and creditors, merchandise, the household, cash the money to balance the different “reasons”.
INVENTORIES
Under this heading were gathered texts that contain the description of individual objects, existing assets or documents of a given person at a given place or at a particular time.
BOOKS OF REASON AND STATEMENT OF SALT
Among the associations in which participation in the Datini had joined, quella of “sale” is of great interest. Essa ebbe vita fra il 1376 and 1379 Nastagio with Tommaso di Ser and took charge of the specifically salt trading Hiére.
The accounts in this regard consists of a “Book of reason and account of the salt”, a species of “Secret Book”, where to buy, sales and related expenses shall also indicate the profits of the “reason”, aside from 5 notebooks “memories” of shopping, sales and debtors that cover the entire period of such vuta Association.
BOOK OF pelvis
One of the ramifications of individual company Francesco Datini was woven, in 1378, con Avigliana, by Martin from Milan, sent on site to prepare for the manufacture of 200 pelvis (ie, of helmets) and other metal objects to be placed in Avignon and in other places.
This very special notebook, reveals that activity through “patti” and the accounts of Martino da Milano.
BOOK OF COURIERS
On these notebooks are noted all a correspondence that have made the company head. They took on the function of modern books protocol and provided the control elements when the couriers rimettevano company accounts for dispatch of letters or, vice versa, for the compilation of the accounts by the company itself. These entries are in date order (of departure or arrival of the letters), next to which was referred to the courier or the name of the person who effected the service. Followed by the names of the recipients or senders. Numerous lists of this kind we find them in the usual recollections, in household expenses or in other cases defined simply “letters sent and received”.
BOOK OF THE LANE
These Notebooks, of particular interest, were held by employees, specifically located in the centers for the purchase of wool woolen.
BOOK OF CHANGES
This Book, of particular importance for banking operations, is dedicated to the detection, in chronological order, business notes. Through its form we come to know the four positions (employer – borrower – drawee – beneficiary) who assumed the company in exchange contract.
For companies Datini Avignon, there are no specific pieces of this type, if not the booklet of Francesco Datini own, attached to the Secret Book, n. 162 (n.v. 151) Avignon. Instead, the beautiful Book of always changing the company's Avignon, belongs (together with those of other material) to a company apparently unrelated to those Datini, e cioé a Francesco Benini e Niccolaio di Bonaccorso. These accounts can be found in the papers Datini because the latter had granted Niccolaio Bonaccorso of loans for commercial activity that Niccolaio not only believed but have returned, even, be receivable from the same Datini. Hence the need to verify all records to ascertain the truth.
NOTEBOOKS SEAL
In these books were reported income and expenditure of money made in usclusivamente Forini of seal, ie florins contained in a sealed bag to ensure the coinage and weight. The inlet and outlet were fused, succedendosi, in chronological order, on two columns of numerical data: in the left margin, the amount of florins of individual movements, preceded by a plus or minus sign “M” (put), for positive change, and “T” for negative; the right hand, the remainder, operation by operation, inserting the person's name and the phrase “the entrata” or “to output” or also “the notebook”.
BOOKS OF STAFF
These books can be found in companies of Art of Wool, as distinct from a “Quadernuccio personnel attendance” One ad “Quadernuccio of scioperii”, understood as absence from work.
PAPERS OF LOADS OF SHIPS AND CURRENCY OF MERCHANDISE
They were copied, in these notebooks, is loads of ship that currencies of merchandise before they were shipped, while in a second were copied those received.
PRACTICE mercatura
That is the matter that usually offer these manuals:
a) units (multiples and submultiples) for every square, their trading performance of groups of goods, minutely specified;
b) special coins, as the aforementioned units of certain classes of goods;
c) taxing rights to entry and exit and any charges for loading and discharge;
d) additional costs of transport in general and for some routes;
and) correlation of each square with the other, to indicate the relationship between the measures. In the sample Datini, come to us in fragment, therein only the latter item.
BOOKS OF possessions
Falls into this category any book relevant to the real estate, both in static form (records on the purchase of new land, Barred for those alienated), that in a dynamic form, recording, according to the land and the crops, the seed used and yields obtained.
BOOKS COMPANY OF ART WOOL AND COLOUR
It includes a comprehensive set of codes pertaining to the management of the industrial enterprises of Art and Art of the color of the wool.
BOOKS OF MEASURES
They went into operation when the pieces of cloth passed in stock to be annotated according to the three sales destinations: in bale; digrosso, that is a whole piece, to the “cutting”, ie retail.