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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1344
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944421123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300459373
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4442112

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1544-1545

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1544-1545. 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, Agostino, and Francesco de' Medici; Bernardo Ricasoli; Ferdinando and Piero Salviati; Francesco and Mariotto Rucellai; Guglielmo Capponi; Alessandro Antinori; Bartolomeo Gondi; and Bernardo Buonaccorsi. Transactions are sometimes related 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, dated 1544, contain a list of names of more debtors and the amount they owe.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5922 (Siena, 1495-1524), but with shorter, parallel sides.

Extent

48 leaves : 336 x 114 mm. bound to 343 x 116 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 48; [1], 2-39, [40-48], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 40-48 are blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 164 on spine; the heading Richordi no. 22 on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.

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 cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century

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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