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Title

Ledger of Amadori accounts

Authors

• Amadori, Niccolo

Call number

Ms. Codex 1387
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4448456
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4448456

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1600-1609

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of Niccolo Amadori for the years 1600-1609. Parts of the memoranda are written by Niccolo Amadori in the first person. Contains detailed records of the transactions related to the use of a financial instrument, probably bills of exchange. A bill of exchange is a written order by one person to his bank to pay the bearer a specific sum on a specific date. Prior to the advent of paper currency, bills of exchange were a common means of exchange. Niccolo Amadori frequently appears to be involved in such transactions both as the writer of bills of exchange and as a receiver of them. The amounts of the transactions that appear in the ledger vary considerably. Among the names of the counterparts mentioned in the manuscript are those of Pandolfo Pandolfini, Lorenzo and Ottavio Ricciardi, Lorenzo and Vincenzo Ricasoli, Vincenzo de' Medici and various members of the Medici Capponi family. A letter, dated 1599, signed by Baccio Tovaglia and addressed to Niccolo Amadori in Piacenza, is laid in the manuscript.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Agneau pascal 48 (Florence, 1498).

Extent

127 leaves : 337 x 223 mm. bound to 330 x 236 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 127 + i (paper); versos numbered 1-127, contemporary pagination in ink, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-xxiii, [xxiiii], xxv-lv, [lvi], lvii-cxxi, [cxxii-cxxiiii], cxxv, [cxxvi-cxxvii], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 153 on spine; the heading Quaderno di cambi and letter B with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

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.

Script

Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--17th century

Genres

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

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