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Title

Ledger of Amadori accounts

Call number

Ms. Codex 1389
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4448435
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4448435

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1609-1612

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts, probably of Niccolo Amadori, for the years 1609-1612. 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 appears to be frequently 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 Giovanni Martelli, Paolo Montauti, Bernardo Miniati, Duccio Mancini de' Medici and various members of the Medici Capponi family. Six short letters, addressed to Niccolo Amadori, regarding the settlement of transactions, are laid in the manuscript. One note addressed to Giovanni Mantelli is also laid in the manuscript and it deals with a debt that was not paid on time. A separate note, also laid in the ledger, contains an itemized account of a part of the estate of Niccolo Amadori , and it is followed by a detailed set of instructions to collect rent from tenants and deposit it in the bank in a safe manner.

Notes

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

Watermark

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

Extent

143 leaves : 342 x 231 mm. bound to 351 x 237 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 143 + i (paper); versos numbered 1-103, [104-143] contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-xxviiii, [xxx-lxxviiii], lxxx-ciii, [ciiii-cxlii], 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. 155 on spine; the heading Quaderno di cambi and letter C 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, perhaps 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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