Location: Cambridge MA, Harvard University,
Sub-Location: Houghton Library MS Tip. 466 (4)v.
Type:Institutional account book
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by U. Gnoli, “Documenti inediti intorno a Raffaello d’Urbino”, in “Archivio Storico dell’Arte”, II, 1889, p. 34; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 279-80.
Notes: Gnoli gave the original collocation as Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Archivio dell'Uditore, Acts of Apocello, 'Obligationum' (1517), c. 9r.

Raphael borrows 150 ducats from Pierfrancesco Bini and pays him back.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 10.1.1517 , 20.4.1518
[al margine sinistro ] Die xx aprilis 1518 cassata de consensu domini Petri di Binis quia satisfactus, presentibus Petro Pontiloni et Bartholomeo Virato testibus. Obligatio pro D. Bernardo Bini et sociis Dominus Raphael Johannis Sanctis de Urbino pictor sponte confessus fuit habuisse mutuo [inserito: a prefatis mercatoribus in prompta et numerata pecunia] prout in [cancellato: presentia] mei notari et testium presentia habuit et recepit [ cancellato: ducatos centum quinquaginta] per manus domini Petri Francisci de Binis institoris prefatorum mercatorum ducatos centum quinquaginta auri [cancellato: in auro] de camera in totidem juliis ad rationem decem juliorum pro ducato. Quos eisdem, licet absentibus, me notario presenti etc., solvere promisit hic Rome infra unum annum proxime venturum. Pro quibus se in ampliori forma Camere Apostolice cum clausulis consuetis obligavit etc., subscripsit etc., juravit. Actum in Palacio Apostolico in sala ante cameram pape, presentibus Laurentio de Canisanis laico Florentino et Thoma Andree Bononiensi pictore testibus.