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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors, memoranda and other records

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1292
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944329703503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297116425
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4432970

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1566-1573

Place

Italy

Summary

A ledger of debtors and creditors, memoranda and miscellaneous accounts of Luisa de' Medici, wife of Luigi di Bivigliano de' Medici. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that hold the debt or credit; the memoranda include a brief history of how certain assets (often property or cattle) were acquired or how a particular event resulted in a debt; the miscellaneous accounts are often related to the payment of workers and servants, the price of harvests, and various credits and debts that are paid in kind (examples of the produce used for these payments are chestnuts, grains, cattle feed, cattle, swine). Flyleaves formed by a 15th-century vellum bifolium, containing passages from Matthew (ch. 26), Jeremiah (ch. 18) and John (ch. 12). It is written in a Gothic script with red and blue initials and red rubrics.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Arbalete 762 (Lucca, 1598), but without the fleur-de-lis.

Extent

192 leaves : 330 x 225 mm. bound to 344 x 231 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (parchment), + 191 leaves, + i (parchment); versos numbered 1-123, [124], 125-138, [139-144], 145-188, [189-192], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-cxxiii, [cxxiiii], cxxv-cxxxviii, [cxxxviiii-cxliiii], cxlv-clxxxviii, [clxxxviiii-cxci], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (leaves 139-144 and 189-192 are blank). Each opening has a matched Arabic numeral on the left and a Roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 25 on spine, the heading Debitori, creditori, ricordi e altro, no. 112 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine. Fragment from an incunable concerning Greek orators inside upper cover.

Layout

Debtors and creditors 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. The memoranda section is written in long lines but the leaves are ruled.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused incunable leaf, Inside front cover