Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ledger of Amadori debtors and creditors

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1370
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944456733503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/302272400
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4445673

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1515-1548

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Andrea and Lorenzo di Francesco Amadori for the years 1515-1548. 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 there are Francesco Amadori, Biagio and Leonardo Raglini, Giovanni Dalfano . The transactions concern small debts or credits between Andrea Amadori and various counterparts, including other members of the Amadori family but payments to professionals (including dyers, bakers and carpenters) for their services are not uncommon. There are also many transactions between Andrea and Lorenzo Amadori and their employees: in these cases the former often pay in cash, whereas the latter tend to pay in kind. A small number of transactions record the purchase of farm tools and products (feed, fertilizer). In certain cases there are notes on the production of oil and wine for single farms. Memoranda consist of more detailed descriptions of the circumstances that led to the creation of a debt or credit.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Ancre 492 (Lucca, 1522); and unidentified watermark containing a fish in a double circle.

Extent

96 leaves : 265 x 193 mm. bound to 267 x 195 mm

Foliation

Paper, 96; [1-96]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners (f. 85-96 are blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 175 on spine; the heading Debitori e creditori, no. 50 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

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 or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages. Memoranda 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

Genres

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

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Financial records
• Paper

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1370: Ledger of Amadori debtors and creditors are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Debtors and creditors, f. 1v
• fol. 60v — Memoranda, f. 60v