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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Call number

Ms. Codex 1355
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944440533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301710824
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4444053

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1594-1637

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1594-1637. It includes a detailed list of the transactions which took place in some of the farms of the Medici estate (including Castagnuolo and Marciolla) and the revenues derived from selling produce and harvests. Data on the production and sale of oil and wine appear frequently. Produce details (different kinds of wheat or olives, or variants of beans) and sowing techniques used (with or without using oxen) are also noted. Small debts and credits between the owner (or owners) of the estates and employees are also present, and often workers paid their debts in kind.

Notes

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

Extent

190 leaves : 247 x 180 mm. bound to 261 x 183 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 190; [1-190]; modern foliation in pencil, irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 100 on spine, heading Libro di possessioni, and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Written in long lines. Sometimes itemized accounts of a single transaction are also present.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Accounting--Italy--17th century
• Farm life--Italy--History
• Farm management--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

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

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