CORSINI, PHILIP AND BARTHOLOMEW
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0074 CLC/B/062 |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : CORSINI, PHILIP AND BARTHOLOMEW |
Date(s) | : 1567-1990 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 80 production units. |
Name of creator(s) | : Corsini | Philip | fl 1568-1600 | merchant Corsini | Bartholomew | fl 1568-1600 | merchant |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Philip and Bartholomew Corsini were merchants from Florence, based in Gracechurch Street, London.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopies and microfilm copies of the correspondence of Philip and Bartholomew Corsini, Florentine merchants in London, 1568-1637. Also letters addressed chiefly to Francesco Venturini, merchant and banker, and his partner and successors, in Leghorn [Livorno}, 1663-1708, and to Angiolini and Frangini, merchants, and others, in Florence, 1701-1742.
Original items: only two original documents are held: a letter from Nov 1590 (CLC/B/062/MS22280A) and an insurance policy for a cargo (CLC/B/062/MS22281)
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
Italian
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Copies were made of the correspondence when it was auctioned by Christie's Robson Lowe in 1984-1988.
Allied Materials
Related material:
See CLC/B/047 for the sales catalogues from the Corsini auction.
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
November 2010 to January 2011. Updated May 2017.
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