Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Call number

Ms. Codex 1313
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4435271
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4435271

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1608-1609

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of the brothers Andrea and Vincenzo de' Medici, sons of Carlo de' Medici, for the years 1608-1609. 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 transactions are related to the buying and selling of textile products (usually silk).

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Agneau pascal 48 (Florence, 1498).

Extent

87 leaves : 312 x 202 mm. bound to 316 x 214 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 87; [1-87], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--17th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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