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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1348
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944424803503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301229321
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4442480

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1549-1569

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1549-1569. The transactions recorded in the ledger usually concern harvests or revenues derived from the sale of harvests. For most occurrences, the amount of the transaction (either the value of the harvest or the revenue from the sale of a harvest or percentages of it) is recorded. In certain cases, the name of the harvester is also present. Sometimes debts are settled in cash, but more often they are paid in kind (oil, wheat, wine). Carlo de' Medici appears throughout the ledger both as a debtor (who pays in cash) and as a creditor (who is often paid in kind). One of the notes laid in the manuscript contains the total for both debts and credits, organized by month and by year, for the years 1557-1572.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Enclume, 5963 (Florence, 1514-29).

Extent

70 leaves : 230 x 114 mm. bound to 234 x 120 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 70; i-xxii, 23-40, [41], 42-70; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 165 on spine; the heading Q[uadern]uccio terzo, debitori e creditori and letter C on upper cover.

Layout

Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small 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
• Farm life--Italy--History

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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