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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1279
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944302493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/288945398
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4430249

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1538

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of the Medici family for the years 1537-1538. 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 Spedale e Spedaletto di Santa Maria Novella (p. 6), a Florentine church which also offered medical help to pilgrims and those in need; the Chapitolo and Convento delle monache delle convertite (p. 16), a nunnery for young women, often prostitutes, who converted to Catholicism; Spedale di Santa Maria degli Innocenti (p. 18), a children's orphanage in Florence; the Arte della lana (p. 31), one of the most prestigious guilds of Florence; and the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (p. 53). Alphabetical index, with 18 lettered tabs, containing names of individuals and institutions that appear in the ledger, is laid into the manuscript.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Fleche, 6299 (Florence, 1518-28).

Extent

238 leaves : 332 x 234 mm. bound to 340 x 238 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (parchment) + 238 leaves + i (parchment); versos numbered 1-107, [108], 109-115, [116-238], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], [i], ii, [iii], iiii-xiii, [xiiii], xv-xviii, [xviiii], xx-xxviii, [xxviiii], xxx-xxxii, [xxxiii], xxxiiii-xxxv, [xxxvi-xxxvii], xxxviii, [xxxviiii], xl-xlii, [xliii], xliiii, [xlv], xlvi-lviii, [lviiii], lx-lxxxiii, [lxxxiiii], lxxxv-lxxxviii, [lxxxviiii], lxxxx-cxi, [cxii], cxiii-cxv, [cxvi-ccxxxvii], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (leaves after p. 116 are blank but ruled). Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 133 on spine; the heading Q[uadern]o di chassa ottavo, no. 288, on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather strap, 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 or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt in arabic numerals. 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.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy)
• 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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