Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1304
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944330203503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297619353
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4433020

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1595-1596

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of the Medici family for the years 1595-1596. Often includes the nature of a given transaction and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that act as counterparts in the transaction. In most cases the transactions are in kind (examples of the produce used for these payments are chestnuts, grains, cattle feed, cattle, swine) but some cash transactions are also present. The counterparts in the transactions are often employees or tenants of the Medici family, and as such can pay in kind, or receive in kind payments. Also includes detailed production accounts of various farms, property of the Medici family, organized according to the produce (millet, chestnuts, barley, grains, feed, wine, oil); and detailed accounts of how said produce is distributed or used.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Sirene 13894 (Pisa, 1597).

Extent

63 leaves : 297 x 212 mm. bound to 318 x 217 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 96 + i (paper); rectos numbered [i], 1-61, [62-63], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1, [i-lxiii], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper left verso (leaves 62-63 are blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 101 on spine; the heading Q[uader]no di possessione dell'anno 1595, no. 239 (?) on upper cover.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of equal size, with vertical bounding lines in lead; in certain cases one or both columns contain itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry. In the occurrence of both a debt and a credit with a specific counterpart, credits are usually listed in the left column and debts in the right column, with the same individuals appearing as debtors or creditors on facing columns. In certain cases, however, pages are written in 8 columns, a large one on the left, with the name of the farm, and 7 smaller ones on the right (one for each of the following: millet, chestnuts, barley, grains, feed, wine, oil), that contain numbers related to the distribution or use of the aforementioned produce. Also, when a closing paragraph at the end of a page is present, it is 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
• Farm life--Italy--History
• Farm management--Italy

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1304: Ledger of Medici accounts are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode