One of the best introductions into the materiality of the notation system of the early capitalist Mediterranean merchants remains Melis F., Aspetti della vita economica medievale. Studi nell' Archivio Datini di Prato (Siena: 1962). 10 Cf. for the latter problem the contributions of Isenmann and Legay in this volume.
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