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

Title

Ledger of Gondi accounts

Call number

Ms. Codex 1398
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4449777
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4449777

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1664-1668

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts for household expenses of Ludovico di Mariotto Gondi for his estate located in the Mugello, a prestigious rural region north of Florence. The first part of the ledger contains daily records of expenses related to food and drink and contains the amount of every transaction. All the foods that appear throughout the ledger are typical Tuscan foods and the most frequent are bread (including a specialty bread called pan tondo) and cakes (ciambelline and cannoli); pasta; meat (roast and boiled veal, pork and pigeon, lamb, ham, different types of sausages, and assorted small birds); fish and shellfish (fresh water fish, caviar, cod, herrings, oysters and crab); fruit and vegetables (peas, broccoli, cauliflower, squash, beans, chickpeas and asparagus); cheese (ricotta, parmesan, and sheep's cheese); salt and sugar. The second part of the ledger contains a list of the guests who visited the Mugello estate and ate lunch or dinner (in certain cases, both). Both the food accounts and the guest records are kept daily.

Notes

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

Extent

96 leaves : 320 x 107 mm. bound to 337 x 115 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 96 + i (paper); 1-96; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, no. 31 on spine; the heading Spese giornali di vitto del anno 1664 on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties.

Layout

Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. Sometimes long lines are used to write a closing statement (usually one for each month).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--17th century
• Food habits--Italy--Florence--History--17th century

Genres

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

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