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Title

Ledger of Medici receipts

Call number

Ms. Codex 1311
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4434799
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4434799

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1605-1633

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of receipts of the brothers Andrea and Vincenzo de' Medici, sons of Carlo de' Medici, for the years 1605-1633. Includes the nature of a given transaction, usually a payment made by the Medici brothers to a number of different counterparts, as well as the amount of the transaction. The counterparts appear to be individuals who have an established and durable relationship with the Medici brothers, as the same names appear throughout the entire book, which covers a time frame of almost thirty years.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Aigle 208, (Pisa, 1575-79).

Extent

562 leaves : 290 x 201 mm. bound to 298 x 205 mm

Foliation

Paper, 562; rectos foliated [1-562], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (leaves 551-562 are blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 66 on spine; the heading Portate, 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 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts and the settlement date, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction in arabic numerals.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands, including some of the counterparts of Andrea and Vincenzo de' Medici.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--17th century

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Ledgers (account books)
• Receipts (financial records)
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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