The Law of the Florentine Catasto of 1427

from the appropriate councils of the period 1427–1434, and which was certainly written in those years.

Other sources include the provisions The provvisioni were formal legislative acts or decrees passed by the governing councils of the Republic. of the Florentine Republic and the Deliberations of the Catasto Officials ¹), a volume that contains not only the "orders made by the first officials" original: ordini facti per i primi ufficiali of the catasto, as does Codex B, but also the "appropriations made by the said catasto officials" original Latin: Stantiamenta facta per dictos officiales catastorum—that is, a list of expenses and the records of the appointments of the auxiliary officers for the Ten of the Catasto The Dieci del Catasto was a specific committee of ten citizens appointed to oversee the administration and collection of the new tax.. This volume will serve more than once to illustrate the application of the law. The primary examples will also be taken from the numerous volumes of the Catasto of 1427, for which we provide the archival references in their respective sections.

¹) State Archives of Florence. Catasto no. 3.