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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors and memoranda

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1356
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944440563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301726554
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4444056

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1595-1603

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors and memoranda of Vincenzo and Andrea de' Medici (f. 83r) for the years 1595-1603. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that hold the debt or credit. Transactions are usually related to small purchases of textile products (especially wool), farm products (wine, oil) or to the payment of the wages of workers and servants. Transactions concerning farm management also appear and they are frequently related to the care of horses or land. In certain cases, there are mentions of sales of real estate. Most of the counterparts in the transactions are either employees or servants of Vincenzo and Andrea de' Medici, but the names of Filippo Salviati and Filippo d'Alamanno de' Medici, members of the Florentine aristocracy and relatives of Andrea and Vincenzo, appear throughout the ledger. A letter laid in the manuscript, dated 1605, and addressed to Vincenzo de' Medici, expresses concern for the deteriorating health of the Pope, Leo XI (formerly Alessandro de' Medici). It appears to be written by a friend of the Medici family, Camillo Salimbeni (?).

Notes

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

Watermark

Unidentified watermark containing an eagle, a star and a circle.

Extent

96 leaves : 343 x 118 mm. bound to 347 x 129 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 96; most folios have the same number on both recto and verso; rectos numbered 1-28, 30-38, [39], 40, [41], 42-86, [87-97], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-28, 30-47, [48], 49-56, [57], 58, [59], 60-72, [73], 74-86, [87-97], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper left verso; (folios 87-97 are blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern vellum.

Layout

Debtors and creditors written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit and debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the debt or credit. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts are listed on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals and institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages on some cases. Memoranda written in long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Farm management--Italy
• Farm life--Italy--History
• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Accounting--Italy--17th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Financial records
• Paper
• History

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