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A Source Book for Medieval Economic History

By: Roy C. Cave; Herbert H. Coulson | Book details

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APPENDIX
Florentine Crafts Subject to Tax

The crafts of Florence rapidly acquired legal status, and increased in number in the thirteenth century. Those which were expected to pay a tax at the beginning of the fourteenth century are given below. The list shows a wide variety of industries organized as crafts of greater or less importance.

Source: Doren A., Entwicklung und Organisation der Florentiner Zünfte im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert ( Leipzig, 1897). -- A.D. 1316.

These are the crafts which are compelled to pay the said tax, or which were ordered to pay it to the commune of Florence:

1. Calimala.21. Combmakers.
2. Arte della Lana.22. Rough carpenters and manu
3. St. Mary's Gate (silk). facturers of saddles for asses
4. Spicers. and mules.
5. Physicians.23. Manufacturers of pack-saddles.
6. Furriers.24. Retail winemerchants, as tax, 2
7. Butchers. denarii per pound received
8. Cobblers. from the sale of wine.
9. Smiths.25. Linen and yarn merchants.
10. Dealers in used and new locks.26. Dealers in bedfeathers and
11. Stonemasons and woodcutters. mattress makers.
12. Old clothes and linen dealers.27. Oil, cheese, and grain mer
13. Armor smiths and sword chants; chaff (?) and fodder
smiths. makers (?).
14. Tanners, wholesale and retail.28. Helmetsmiths and brass
15. Bakers (for bakeovens). workers.
16. Goldsmiths and flaskmakers.29. Purse makers.
17. Innkeepers.30. Chest and trunk makers.
18. Harness and beltmakers.31. Coopers, barrel makers, coffin
19. Manufacturers of iron and makers, kneading trough
wooden shields. makers.
20. Saddlers.

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