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

Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Authors

• Mongai, Domenico

Call number

Ms. Codex 1319
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4435983
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4435983

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1623-1625

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts for the Valdinievole farm, property of Andrea de' Medici, written by Domenico di Giovanni Mongai, farm manager of the estate. It includes very detailed accounts of the everyday transactions that result from the management of the farm: examples of such transactions include the purchase of feed for the animals, or food for the farm manager and his wife, the sales of wine and oil to individuals and other farms, the expenses required to furnish the house or to replace broken pieces of furniture, or those necessary to shoe horses. The author, who writes in the first person, gives also information about donations that he makes to friends of the Medici family when they come and visit the farm, and of the produce that he sends to Andrea de' Medici (typically wine, oil, poultry and eggs).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Similar accounts for later years appear in Ms. Codex 1320, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
   
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Tete 15719 (Pisa, 1597-1602) but with a slimmer neck and more detailed crown.

Extent

96 leaves : 347 x 238 mm. bound to 360 x 244 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 96 leaves + i (contemporary paper); 1r-1v, 2r-2v, 3r-3v, 4r-4v, 5r-5v, 6r-6v, 7-155, [i], 156-184, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 106 on spine; the heading Entrata e uscita e giornale, letter A with decorative penwork and no. 82 on upper cover; sketches and unreadable writing inside lower cover, which wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts involved, and the smaller one on the right with the amount received or disbursed.

Script

Written in a cursive script, in the hand of Domenico Mongai.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--17th century
• Farm management--Italy
• Farm life--Italy--History

Genres

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

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