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Title

Notebook of Medici accounts

Authors

• Lucan, 39-65
• Goffredo, da Trani, d. 1245
• Henricus, de Segusio, Cardinal, ca. 1200-1271

Call number

Ms. Codex 1368
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944456753503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/302271209
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4445675

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1542-1547

Place

Italy

Summary

Notebook of accounts of Bivigliano de' Medici for the years 1542-1547. The manuscript contains a wide range of records of transactions both in cash and in kind, some of them with short commentaries. Transactions concern farm management, including the purchase of cattle, swine, sheep, feed, trees, and sowing tools; household management, including the pay of servants, farmers and employees, the purchase of food and drink for private consumption, and of furniture and house accessories; settlement of debts and credits with either business counterparts or family members; and sale of produce and farm products (including oil and wine). Sometimes simple recipes (including one for a cake referred to in the manuscript as ciambellotto) are given, following the accounts of ingredients to be purchased for a specific preparation. There is also a small number of records of the yearly production of oil, wine and, sometimes, wheat. Scattered throughout the manuscript there are more narrative passages where the work of an employee is praised (or criticized), the state of a farm is described, or a situation that led to a debt or a credit is recorded. The manuscript has a lower flyleaf made from a leaf, printed on paper, of a contemporary edition of the Digesta of the Corpus juris civilis. Two alphabetical indexes, with lettered tabs, containing names of individuals that appear in the ledger, are sewn inside the upper cover of the manuscript. The first index is comprised of 20 pages, 2 of which are left blank, and its cover is made from a paper fragment of a 15th-century manuscript of Lucan's Pharsalia, with text written in one column with marginal notes and in a Gothic script; the second index is comprised of 18 pages, and its cover is made from a vellum fragment of a 14th-century manuscript of a summa iuris canonici alphabetica, with passages from summas by Goffredo da Trani and the cardinal Henricus de Segusio, also referred to as Hostiensis. The text is written in two columns with red initials and in a Gothic script, surrounded by a commentary written in a smaller script.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Agneau pascal 48 (Florence, 1498); and Ancre 489 (Florence, 1519).

Extent

222 leaves : 161 x 107 mm. bound to 174 x 111 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 222; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 97 on spine; the heading Q[uaderno] settimo, no. 50 and letter H with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Script

Written a in cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Farm management--Italy

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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