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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1275
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944332753503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/286906203
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4433275

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1535

Place

Italy

Summary

A ledger of debtors and creditors of Carlo Medici for the years 1534-1535. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals or the institutions that hold the debt or credit, the most important being the Opera i operai di Santa Maria del Fiore (p. 32), the frati di Santa Croce (p. 68), and the Capitani di parte [guelfa] (p. 76), a Florentine magistracy.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Echelle, 5926 (Florence, 1524-32).

Extent

112 leaves : 339 x 237 mm. bound to 344 x 242 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (parchment), + 112 leaves, + i (parchment); versos numbered 1-106, [107-112], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered i-viiii, 10, xi-xxiiii, [xxv], xxvi-lxxxii, [lxxxiii], lxxxiiii, [lxxxv-lxxxvi], lxxxvii-lxxxx, [lxxxxi], lxxxxii-lxxxxv, [lxxxxvi], lxxxxvii-c, [ci], 102, ciii-cvi, [cvii-cxi], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (leaves after p. 106 are blank but ruled). Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right, with the exception of p. 10 and 102, which have matching arabic numerals on both recto and verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 30 on spine, the heading Q[uadern]o di chassa terzo; no. 293 on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather straps, metal buckle on upper cover; 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 and debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the debt or credit in arabic numerals. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts are listed on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals and institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages on some cases.

Script

Written in cursive script.

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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