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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1339
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944417563503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300311250
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4441756

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1541-1542

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1541-1542. 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 debt or credit. Among the names that appear throughout the ledger and who act as counterparts in the transactions, the most frequent are Carlo and Alamanno de' Medici; Alessandro Antinori; Leonardo and Piero Salviati; Carlo Capponi; Carlo Renzoni; Francesco Rucellai; Tommaso Martelli; Iacopo Guicciardini; Bartolomeo Ugolini; Giovanni Boni; Tommaso Cavalcanti; and the monks of the Basilica di San Lorenzo. Transactions are sometimes related to the sale of textile products, or to payments for produce or rent, as well as small debts and credits. Most of the individuals who appear in the ledger are members of different Florentine aristocratic families who worked for the Medici as diplomats or statesmen, but who also often acted as business counterparts.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Fleche 6299 (Florence, 1518-1528).

Extent

96 leaves : 334 x 116 mm. bound to 337 x 126 mm

Foliation

Paper, 96; [i], 1-2, iii, 4-54, [55-95], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 55-95 are blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern vellum; previous binding had no. 164 on contemporary slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Sometimes long lines are also used.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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