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Title

Ledger of Pesciori debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1423
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944530223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310753722
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4453022

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1523-1557

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Guglielmo Pesciori for the years 1523-1557. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals or institutions that hold the debt or credit, the most important being the church of Santa Croce, a Florentine hospital; Antonio di Francesco Ridolfi; Marco dal Nero; Cosimo de Rossi; Giovanni di Gherardo Machiavelli; and Piero di Giovanni Capponi. Most transactions are paid in cash but, in certain cases, textile products are also exchanged.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Balance 2515 (Pisa, 1515).

Extent

94 leaves : 284 x 210 mm. bound to 291 x 212 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 94; [1-94]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; irregular contemporary foliation and pagination, upper corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 264 on spine; the heading Debitori e creditori; lower cover wraps around upper cover with 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. Long lines are also used.

Script

Written in a cursive script, 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

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

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