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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1298
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944329953503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297420815
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4432995

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1579-1612

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Fabrizio de' Medici, son of Luigi di Bivigliano de' Medici, for the years 1575-1612. 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 credit or debt. In certain cases debts and credits are in kind (examples of the produce used for these payments are chestnuts, grains, cattle feed, cattle, swine). Notes include personal correspondence of Fabrizio de' Medici regarding the transactions and their payment, among which a letter handwritten by Fabrizio de' Medici in which he promises economic help to an underling whose property was damaged during the earthquake of 1611; a printed document dated 1611 from the Ufficiali de Fiumi della Citta di Firenze; and memoranda of various loans and payments.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Sirene 13894 (Pisa, 1597); and unidentified watermark containing a coat of arms, an eagle and a crescent with rays of light.

Extent

191 leaves : 334 x 236 mm. bound to 339 x 238 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 191: versos numbered 1-176, [177-191], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-clxxvi, [clxxvii-cxc], upper right recto (leaves 177-191 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. 18 on spine; the heading Debitori e creditori, no. 87 and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around 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 transaction and a brief description of it, and the smaller one on the right with its amount in arabic numerals. In the occurrence of both a debt and a credit with a specific counterpart, credits are usually 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. Memoranda and letters written in long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Earthquakes--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Financial records
• Paper

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