Inventories and Expense Accounts
This is a guide to published inventories and lists of expenses in making clothing with a focus on the period 1300-1430.
giuseppi-accounts-of-bogo-de-clare (1284-1286)
Trousseau of Isabella Bruce in di-clemente-trousseau-of-isabella-bruce (25 September 1293)
Draper of Perpignan, 1307, in alart-documents-sur-catalane p. 377
Inventories from Aragon in Boletín de la Real Academia Española 2, 3, 4, 9
English great wardrobe 1340s nicolas-order-of-the-garter
Bonis accounts 1339-1368: forestie-livres-de-comptes
French Argenterie accounts for 1352: Paris, AN, KK 8: Illuminating Fashion p. 5 n. 15, Douēt-d’Arcq 1852 pp. 82-187 darcq-comptes-de-largenterie
King of Navarre’s expenses 1367-1370 izarn-compte-du-roi-de-Navarre
John of Gaunt’s Register (1372-76) armitage-smith-john-of-gaunts-register
Accounts of Philip the Bold of Burgundy in Prost (1363-1377 offline, 1378-1390 online) prost-inventaires-des-ducs-de-bourgogne pp. 295 §1680, 497 §3202, 502 §3226, 530 §3311, 562 §3426 have pourpoints and petit pourpoints, 562 and 529 §3694 have cotton, p. 185 has blue toile, 452 has toille of Reims, various jupons
Inventory of the Goods of Charles V of France, 1379 labarte-inventaire-de-charles-v
Dijon inventories volume 1: 1390-1408 ferrand-inventaires-dijon-i
English account from 1393/1394 baildon-wardrobe-account
Inventory of the Effects of Philip the Bold of Burgundy (d. 1404): Dijon, Archives Départementales de la Côte d’Or, B 301: https://archive.org/details/documentsetextra02deha/page/n5/mode/2up volume 2 pp. 847-849
Datini inventories (1394-1410): hayez-toccafondi-palazzo-datini-a-prato
Inventories from Rimini 1400-1468 in brandi-abbigliamento-e-societa
Burgundian accounts 1416-1420 mollat-comptes-generaux
English duke's accounts from 1418-1421: woolgar-household-accounts
Camille Couderc, Les comptes d’un grand couturier parisien du XVe siècle (Paris: n.p., 1911) https://archive.org/details/lescomptesdungra00coud/ {Dates from 1423 to 1473
Burgundian accounts in Laborde: laborde-ducs-de-bourgogne-2-1 laborde-ducs-de-bourgogne-2-2
Inventory of the effects of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (1465): muentz-collections-des-medicis
Coronation expenses of Richard III and Anne of England in The Antiquarian Repertory
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created and copyrighted on 2021-11-28 by S. Manning ~ last updated 2024-11-26