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Tax records. Records (documents).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Collections of documents associated with the assessment and payment of taxes, including tax returns, tax bills, and warrant books.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

'Liber taxarum' of the Papal Chancery, written in 1484.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.1
Scope and Contents The manuscript was completed in 1484, and written and illuminated in Italy. The volume is a tax book for the Apostolic Chancery containing details of benefices and their respective taxation of the late 15th-century Church. The benefice headings are given in a gothic bookhand, while the remaining text is in a humanistic hand. The names of the benefices are to the left and centre of the page, and the taxable value is given in florins in a column to the right. The list...
Dates: 1484