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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors

Authors

• Medici, Carlo de'

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1283
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944307123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/289035501
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4430712

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1540-1556

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Carlo de' Medici for the years 1540-1556. 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 Chiesa di Santa Lucia a Trespiano (p. 1), one of the oldest Florentine churches; the Capitolo dei Monaci di Volterra (p. 7), a large monastery in Volterra, a Tuscan city that came under the control of the Medici family in 1530; Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (p. 2); the Chapitolo and Convento delle monache di Santa Verdiana (p. 23), a monastery affiliated with the Medici family; and the Arte della lana (p. 81), one of the most important guilds of Florence. Also includes a few brief personal statements by Carlo de' Medici.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Lettre S, 9079 (Pisa, 1541) (p. 1-143); Aigle 89 (Florence, 1501) (after p. 144).

Extent

207 leaves : 283 x 209 mm. bound to 293 x 221 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 207; versos numbered 1-207, contemporary foliation in ink, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-xxxiiii, [xxxv], xxxvi-l, [li], lii-liiii, [lv], lvi-lviii, [lviiii], lx-lxii, [lxiii-lxvi], lxvii-lxxxxvii, [lxxxxviii], lxxxxviiii, [c], ci-cxxviii, [cxxviiii], cxxx-cxxxii, [cxxxiii-cxxxiiii], cxxxv-cxxxviii, [cxxxviiii], cxxxx-clii, [cliii], cliiii-ccvi, contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 31 on spine; the heading Quaderno, no. 303 and letter B with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover; remnants of leather ties and 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, perhaps by multiple hands.

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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