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Title

Ledger of Gerardi accounts

Authors

• Gerardi, Alamanno

Call number

Ovesize Ms. Codex 1430
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944542853503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311117898
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4454285

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1563-1565

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of miscellaneous accounts of Alamanno di Giovanbattista Gerardi and members of other aristocratic families of Florence, as well as smaller investors, usually private individuals, for the years 1563-1565. Often includes the nature of a given transaction and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that act as counterparts in the transaction. The ledger contains accounts of commercial notes (a type of financial instrument that is used in international exports; such instruments are exchanged between two counterparts, a buyer and a seller, with the help of a third party who acts like a broker; the note protects the counterparts in case of long distance trades as the title for purchased goods is released to the buyer after the total sale price is paid to the third party using cash); accounts of promissory notes (a type of contract where one party makes an unconditional promise in writing to pay a sum of money to the other party at a fixed future time agreed between the two); full copies of the text of both commercial and promissory notes to be exchanged by various counterparts; contracts related to the sale of grains; debtors and creditors whose transactions are related to the sale or purchase of grains; and miscellaneous memoranda. Members of the Florentine aristocracy, including Antonio and Francesco Risaliti, Francesco Tornabuoni, Lanfredino Acciaiuoli and Antonio Gondi appear throughout the ledger and act as counterparts in transactions with sellers or buyers in Sicily, Genoa, France and Spain. Contracts related to the sale of grains were between local counterparts, usually farmers and merchants. Debts and credits were usually related to the sale or purchase of cattle, fabrics and wool (for resale or private use). Memoranda include more detailed descriptions of the circumstances which lead to a debt or a credit.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Sirene 13876 (Genoa, 1547).

Extent

144 leaves : 352 x 242 mm. bound to 355 x 246 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 144; [1-144], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto, contemporary pagination; irregular contemporary pagination in Roman and Arabic numbers in ink, upper outer corners (f. 8-15, 29-30, 59-69, 86-90, 98-128 and 132-142 blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 245 (?) on spine; the heading Quaderno di cambi e ricordi, no. 15 (?) and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Script

Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands, including that of Alamanno Gerardi.

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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