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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors and memoranda

Authors

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1354
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944440523503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301710811
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4444052

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1579-1612

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors, memoranda and miscellaneous accounts of Fabrizio de' Medici for the years 1579-1612. 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; the memoranda include a brief history of how certain assets (often property) were acquired or how a particular event resulted in a debt (for example a flood in a property that was about to be sold or rented); the miscellaneous accounts are often related to the payment of workers and servants, the price of harvests, and various credits and debts that are paid in kind. Household expenses, including those for food and drink (wine, flour, cheese) are also recorded. The front flyleaf is from an earlier vellum leaf from a liturgical book, printed on vellum and with rubrics in red. The back flyleaf is on paper, from a printed edition of De Legibus, by Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Agneau pascal 48 (Florence, 1498); Monts 11936 (Lucca, 1583); Fleur-de-lis 7105 (Rome, 1565), but with rounder petals.

Extent

208 leaves : 345 x 140 mm. bound to 358 x 142 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 208 + i (paper); versos numbered 1-199, [200-208], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-clxviii, 170, [clxxi-clxxxv], clxxxvi-clxxxxviiii, [cc-ccvii], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (leaves 172-185 and 201-208 are blank). Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 19 on spine, heading Q[uadernu]ccio e ricordi, no. 89 and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Debtors and creditors written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit and debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the debt or credit in arabic numerals. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts are listed on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals and institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages on some cases. The memoranda section is written in long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Accounting--Italy--17th century

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

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

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