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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts and debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1496
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944869723503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319704255
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4486972

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1538-1539

Place

Florence

Summary

Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1538-1539. 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 Carlo di Umberto Acciaiuoli; Agnolo e Piero Salviati; Alessandro e Agnolo Antinori; Francesco Rucellai; Benedetto di Polito; Piero and Luigi Capponi; Ottaviano and Cosimo de' Medici; the Spedale di Santa Maria degli Innocenti (p. 8); the Capitolo delle monache delle convertite (p. 19), a nunnery for young women, often prostitutes, who converted to Catholicism; the Spedale di Santa Maria Novella (p. 22), a Florentine church which also offered medical help to pilgrims and those in need; and the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (p. 53). Transactions are sometimes related to payments for produce, rent or customs fees, as well as small debts and credits with workers (including a scribe and a road builder). Most of the individuals who appear in the ledger are, however, members of different Florentine aristocratic families with whom the Medici did business.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• For an alphabetical index to a ledger of accounts, dated 1539-1540, containing entries for many of the individuals mentioned in the present index, and written in a similar hand, see Ms. Codex 1540, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
   
• Very similar to Ms. Codex 1341, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
   
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5922 (Siena, 1495-1524).

Extent

96 leaves : 336 x 227 mm. bound to 350 x 240 mm

Foliation

Paper, 96; versos numbered 1-89, [90-96], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-lxxxviiii, [lxxxx-lxxxxv], upper right recto (leaves after p.89 are blank but ruled). Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

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 appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages. Other expenses are written in long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

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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