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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Authors

• Medici, Fabrizio de'

Call number

Ms. Codex 1352
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944430633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301577937
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4443063

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1567-1572

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of Niccolo de' Medici for the years 1567-1572 written by Fabrizio de Medici. Includes the nature of a given revenue or expense as well as the name of the individual who acted as counterpart in the transaction. Transactions are mostly related to farm and household management, such as barrel hoops and wood purchases; expenses for milling wheat and olives; sales of cereal and feed. Two named farms belonging to Niccolo de' Medici that appear in the ledger are the podere di Castagnuolo and the podere di Montegiovi, both located outside Florence. Small debts and credits, unrelated to farm management, with employees and business counterparts are also present. In a few cases there are mentions of transactions related to textile products. One of the notes laid in the manuscript is a letter written by Fabrizio de' Medici concerning the sale of a tree to a counterpart.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Fleur-de-lis 7105 (Rome, 1565), but with rounder petals; and unidentified watermark containing the letter T

Extent

68 leaves : 197 x 133 mm. bound to 202 x 135 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 68; [1], 2-51, [52-68], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil (leaves 30-43 and 52-68 are blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 92 on spine; the heading Quadernuccio d'entrata e d'uscita di posessioni di Niccolo Medici dal 1567 on upper cover; lower and upper cover with remnants of leather ties.

Layout

Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number or the year in which the transaction took place, the large central column with the transaction and a brief description of it, 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.

Script

Written in a cursive script, in the hand of Fabrizio de' Medici.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Farm life--Italy--History
• Farm management--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

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

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