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

Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1321
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944368073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299041307
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4436807

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with one note in Latin and Italian

Origin

Date

1465-1494

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of Alamanno de' Medici, for the years 1465-1494. Includes a detailed description of income and expenses which he incurred to manage his household. Also includes accounts of loans to members of aristocratic Florentine families, such as the Risaliti and the Salviati; and accounts of small sales of textile products for private use. The accounts are kept using a single entry bookkeeping system. Loose items previously laid in the manuscript have been removed and shelved with the manuscript.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5907 (Florence, 1475).

Extent

144 leaves : 338 x 118 mm. bound to 342 x 125 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 144; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern vellum. Previous binding had no. 11 on spine and upper cover (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry.

Decoration

Manicule (f. 123v).

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--15th century

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Financial records
• Paper

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