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Title

Ledger of Amadori memoranda

Authors

• Amadori, Andrea

Call number

Ms. Codex 1382
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944474503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/303495362
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4447450

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1552-1566

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of memoranda of Andrea di Lorenzo Amadori for the years 1552-1566. Parts of it are written by Andrea Amadori in the first person. Often includes a detailed description 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 most important being Jacopo Girolami, Francesco Amadori, Pasquale di Benedetto Bonechi, Girolamo Brizzi and Leonardo Santini. Small transactions concerning the sale or purchase of household accessories and pieces of furniture and textile products are also present, together with short inventories of said products. The inventories, however succinct, are very detailed as different types of linens and their uses are listed, together with wool products and their uses. In certain cases the counterparts in the transactions write a receipt (after receiving either cash or products) on the manuscript and sign and date it. Some of the names that appear are those of Matteo di Tommaso, Francesco Bonini and Leonardo Santini. In other cases Andrea Amadori writes receipts of either money or products (usually textile products) in a narrative tone.

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.

Extent

145 leaves : 209 x 133 mm. bound to 220 x 135 mm

Foliation

Paper, 144; [i], 1-131, [132-143]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 132r--140r blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 193 on spine; the heading Andrea Amadori ricordi and letter D with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.

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.

Script

Written in a cursive script by multiple hands, including those of Andrea di Amadori and various business counterparts.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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