Publication Date
Spring 1989
Abstract
Yale University has recently purchased from a Swiss book dealer a large trove of Italian Renaissance manuscripts forming the archive of the Spinelli banking family of Florence. The price was not announced. Until 1920, the documents had been housed in the 500-year old palace of the Spinelli's in Florence. Included in the 150,000 documents in the archive are business records and extensive correspondence between the Spinellis and many of the major figures of Renaissance Italy, including Lorenzo and Cosimo De' Medici, several Popes, and many leading merchant families. The sheer size of the archive makes it the largest collection at Yale, and the largest Renaissance archive in the United States.
Recommended Citation
Accounting Historians, Academy of
(1989)
"Yale University purchases Renaissance archive,"
Accounting Historians Notebook: Vol. 12:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebook/vol12/iss1/5