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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Authors

• Medici, Luigi de'
• Medici, Alamanno de'

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1322
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944368293503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299065347
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4436829

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1495-1544

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of Luigi and Alamanno de' Medici, for the years 1495-1544. 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, the Salviati and the Strozzi; and accounts of small sales of textile products for private use. The accounts are kept using a single entry bookkeeping system. The book is mostly written by Luigi de' Medici himself, who signs numerous pages, but there are passages written by his son Alamanno, who took over his father's accounts once he died, in 1530.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Chapeau 3373 (Florence, 1476).

Extent

100 leaves : 285 x 105 mm. bound to 290 x 112 mm

Foliation

Paper, 100; 1-100; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern vellum. Previous binding had no. 165 on slip attached to spine (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.12r).

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands, including those of Luigi and Alamanno de' Medici.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--15th century
• Accounting--Italy--16th century

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Financial records
• Paper

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Decorations

• fol. 12r — Manicule, f. 12r