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Title

Ledger of Amadori debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1380
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944467223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/302411887
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4446722

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1543-1546

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Bartolomeo and Francesco di Andrea Amadori for the years 1543-1546. 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, the most important being Niccolo and Bartolomeo Pieri, Giuliano di Giovanni Battaglia, Alessandro and Tolomeo Talani, Filippo di Francesco Girolami, Domenico Mori and the Comune di Firenze. The Comune di Firenze appears to have borrowed a large sum of money from the Amadori family. The transactions concern debts or credits between Bartolomeo and Francesco di Andrea Amadori and various counterparts, but payments to professionals (including dyers, bakers and carpenters) for their services are not uncommon. There are also many transactions between Bartolomeo and Francesco di Andrea Amadori and his employees: in these cases the former often pay in cash, whereas the latter tend to pay in kind. The name of Francesco di Andrea Amadori appears throughout the ledger as being a partner in transactions with Bartolomeo Amadori.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Ancre 492 (Lucca, 1522).

Extent

192 leaves : 287 x 215 mm. bound to 302 x 228 mm

Foliation

Paper, 192; versos numbered 1-191, contemporary foliation in arabic numerals in ink, upper left verso; rectos numbered irregularly in roman numberals, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 178 on spine; the heading Debitori, creditori e ricordi and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

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 or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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