Collections

The following 17 projects are published in DEPCHA.


Annata SS. Pietro e Sebastiano 1485

Scope
1485
Napoli, Italy
Italian
Source
Napoli, Archivio di Stato
Editor
Georg Vogeler / Ciro Romano / Antonella Ambrosio
Subject
Business Accounts
Description

Business Accounts of the monastery Santi Pietro e Sebastiano in Naples from the year 1485

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Burgos Ledger

Scope
1558
Burgos, Spain
Spanish
Editor
Naoki Kokaze / Satoru Nakamura / Takeshi Fushimi / Yusuke Nakamura
Subject
Business Accounts
Description

The Salamanca Company was from Burgos, Northern Spain, one of the main centers of commercial networks stretching through Europe, Mediterranean and New World. Merchants of Burgos expanded their activities from exporting sheep fleece to financial services such as foreign remittance. Books were created with double entry method and found in a judiciary section of the Provincial Archive of Burgos.

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City Accounts of Leuven

Scope
1438-1439
Leuven, Belgium
Dutch
Source
City Archive Leuven
Editor
Yannick De Meulder / Hadewijch Masure
Subject
City Accounts
Description

City Accounts of Leuven from the beginning of August 1438 until end of June 1439.

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City accounts of Lviv

Scope
1480
Lviv, Ukraine
German
Editor
Michal Schmidt
Subject
City Accounts
Diary of Jeremiah White Graves

Scope
1850
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
English
Editor
Ben W. Brumfield
Subject
Business Accounts
Description

Diary and account books kept by Jeremiah White Graves (1801-1884) in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

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Digital Edition of the account book from the archive of the monastery of SS. Pietro and Sebastiano of Naples, "ASN 1398, "Quaternus" di introito ed esito , 1477 - 1484"

Scope
1477-1484
Italy, Napoli
Neapolitan
Source
Italy. Archivio di Stato di Napoli (ASN). "Quaternus" di introito ed esito, 1477 - 1484"
Editor
Giuseppe Consolo
Subject
Monastery Account
Description

A digital edition of a late medieval account book (1477-1484) from the Dominican monastery of SS. Pietro and Sebastiano in Naples, containing financial records of income and expenditure. The original manuscript (220×150mm) consists of 216 paper pages written in minuscola corsiva script by 17 different hands, including female scribes, documenting the monastery's economic activities. This edition is part of a broader digital humanities project on 15th-century monastic accounting in Naples.

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George Washington Financial Papers (GWFP)

Scope
1750-1799
USA
English
Source
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C., MSS 44693: Reel 115
Editor
Jennifer Stertzer / Erica Cavanaugh
Subject
Business Accounts / Household Accounts
Description

George Washington kept a variety of business and household accounting records, including receipts, bills, invoices, waste books, journals of accounts, and ledger books of accounts. He used these to keep track of how much money he owed or was owed to him and to monitor how he spent his money. These documents provide detailed information about his financial dealings, such as earnings from shipping tobacco and other goods produced by his plantations; travel expenses to various taverns; and rent payments due from his tenants. Prices of many commodities (food, livestock, crops, household items) are recorded in these pages, as are transactions with a wide range of people, including men and women, large- and small-scale farmers, tradespeople, laborers, lawyers, businesspeople, mariners, free blacks, and enslaved people. The digital edition aims to make the business and budget files of US President George Washington accessible.

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Jahrrechnungen der Stadt Basel 1535 bis 1610

Scope
1535-1610
Basel, Switzerland
German
Source
Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt
Editor
Georg Vogeler / Susanna Burghartz / Lukas Meili / Sonia Calvi / Jonas Sagelsdorff
Subject
City Accounts
Description

Prof. Susanna Burghartz from the University of Basel prepared an edition of the annual municipal accounts of Basel in the 16th century, which is major source for the social and economic history of the town. In cooperataion with the ZIM the project created a semantically enriched edition following the research result of Georg Vogeler on the digital edition of medieval and early modern accounting. The edition allows to access the accounts as texts and as numerical data as well.

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Jane Addams Financial Documents

Scope
1895-1896
Chicago, USA
English
Source
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52770565
Editor
Hajo, Cathy Moran
Subject
Business Accounts
Description

The collection consists primarily of materials generated or collected by the central administrative office of Hull House Association and documents the history, leadership, activities, and mission of the organization. It also includes materials relating to the affiliates and the administrative records from two affiliate centers: the Jane Addams Center and the Uptown Center. The materials in the collection span the years from 1889 to 1999, but the bulk of material is from approximately 1963 to 1979. This collection consists of a log of donations made to Hull-House in 1895 and a log of donors from 1896, both are part of a longer log book.

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Laban Morey Wheaton Day Book

Scope
1828-1859
Norton, Massachusetts, USA
English
Source
Wheaton College Massachusetts
Editor
Sahilia Ramirez / Kathryn Tomasek
Subject
Family Accounts
Description

Daybook of L.M. Wheatons Store, expenses of building houses and barns, and expenses of constructing Wheaton Female Seminary buildings.

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Orphan Accounts

Scope
1391
Florence, Italy
Italian
Source
Shelf Number 4, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Italy
Editor
Laura Morreale
Subject
Business Accounts
Description

The collection of inventories produced by an office of the Florentine state, called the Magistrati dei Pupilli. This office created in the late 14th century at the request of Florentine families. Due primarily to recurrent plague in Florence starting in mid-14th century families were unable to manage the wealthy estates of their minor relatives, who had inherited considerable assets upon the death of their benefactors. Families asked the state to take over. When the Office of Orphans took on the management of a minor’s estate, a packet of documents was created to record actions taken on the minor’s behalf.

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Regensburg Cameralia

Scope
1393-1396
Regensburg, Germany
German
Source
Archiv Kasten, Codex 3,2, Südtiroler Landesarchiv
Editor
Heidrun Boshof
Subject
City Accounts
Description

Data originally published in the Fontes Civitatis Ratisponensis.

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Rentrechnung 1718

Scope
1718
Liechtenstein
German
Source
Fürstentum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtensteinisches Landesarchiv, AS 8/2
Editor
Anton Büchel
Subject
State Accounts
Description

Accounts of the revenue office of the Principality of Liechtenstein.

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Schlitz

Scope
1897
USA
English
Subject
Business Accounts
Description

Business Accounts of Schlitz.

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Stagville Accounts

Scope
1808
USA
English
Source
Southern Historical Collection, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Editor
Sara Brumfield / Anna Agbe-Davies / Ben W. Brumfield
Subject
Business Accounts
Description

The Cameron Family Papers are held at the Southern History Collection at UNC, and incldue substantial business records. Some of these record transactions between the plantation store and members of the community. Of particular interest to this conference is the "slave ledger"; a separate account book recording transactions between the Cameron store and and enslaved customers.

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Tax Rolls of Medieval Paris 1296

Scope
1296-1313
Paris, France
French
Source
Archives nationales de France, Paris
Editor
Nathan Daniels
Subject
Tax Accounts
Description

The Tax Rolls of Medieval Paris is a TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)-based digital edition of the seven extant tax rolls from the tailles levied on the city of Paris by Philip the Fair between 1292 and 1313. These documents provide a wealth of information about the individual people, demographics, and history of the city.

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Thos W Ward Account Ledger

Scope
1934
Sheffield, England
English
Source
Marine Technology Special Collection, Newcastle, UK
Editor
Naoki Kokaze
Subject
Business Accounts
Description

Business Accounts of the steel, engineering and cement business of Thomas William Ward. In 1894, as part of the scrap metal operation, Ward's began to set up substantial shipbreaking yards in different parts of England, and in Scotland and Wales. By 1953, Thos. W. Ward employed 11,500 people.

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