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Title

Ledger of Gondi accounts

Authors

• Gondi, Simone

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1392
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944494843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/308561901
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4449484

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1533-1535

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors and miscellaneous accounts of Federico Gondi for the years 1533-1535, at least partially written by Simone Gondi. Often includes the nature of a given debt or credit or other transaction, as well as listing the name of the individual who hold the debt or credit or who acts as counterpart in the transaction. Many transactions appear to concern the purchase of small art pieces, referred in the manuscript as formelle, from different artisans. Some the names that appear frequently in the ledger are those of Lorenzo Filippi, Lorenzo Manelli and Raffaello Damancore. They appear to be involved in the production of the farm referred to in the text as podere del Mugnale. Brief descriptions and accounts of said production (including data regarding the yearly production of wine, oil and grains) are also present. More farms and their respective accounts are also mentioned, although not as frequently. The cover of the manuscript is made from a vellum fragment of a 14th-century liturgical manuscript, with text written in two columns with red and blue initials and in a Gothic script.

Notes

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

Watermark

Very close match to Briquet, Croix Greque 5542.

Extent

42 leaves : 286 x 210 mm. bound to 288 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, 42; 1-4, 8-39, 45-50; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (f. 5-7, 40-44 missing, f. 4, 11-15 and 39-50 blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary, 14th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch); no. 283 in upper left-hand corner; no. 127 on lower cover.

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 debt and credit. Itemized accounts of single transactions or long lines are also used.

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
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Financial records
• Paper

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