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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1297
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944329923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297238508
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4432992

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1575-1584

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of the brothers Fabrizio and Niccolo de' Medici, sons of Luigi de' Medici, for the years 1575-1584. Often includes the nature of a given transaction and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that act as counterparts in the transaction. Most of the counterparts are employees of the two brothers and the majority of transactions are in kind (capons, cattle, feed, seeds, wine, grains) but there are occurrences of cash transactions. Entries representing payment for a service rendered by the counterpart and likely agreed upon in advance were called contracts, but they do not present many of the features of formal legal documents and are actually summaries of contracts. Also included are memoranda of transactions and specific events related to the transactions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Couronne 4844 (Lucca, 1580); Armoires Lion 1883 (Florence, 1529), but with the lion's snout more defined.

Extent

192 leaves : 333 x 231 mm. bound to 339 x 238 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 192 leaves + i (paper); versos numbered 1-84, [85], 86-170, [171-175], 176, [177-192], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-lxxxiiii, [lxxxv], lxxxvi-clxx, [clxxi-clxxv], clxxvi, [clxxvii-clxxxxi], upper right recto (leaves 85,171-175 and 177-192 are blank). Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 17 on spine; the heading R[icordi] e con[ti] d[ei] c[o]n[tratti]i co'lavoratori [e] en[trata] e usc[it]a di grano vino e altro, no. 139 and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the transaction and a brief description of it, and the smaller one on the right with its amount in arabic numerals. In the occurrence of both a debt and a credit with a specific counterpart, credits are usually listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages. Memoranda and accounts of contracts written in long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Financial records
• Paper

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