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

Title

Notebook of memoranda

Call number

Ms. Codex 1418
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944530033503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310751486
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4453003

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1461-1498

Place

Italy

Summary

Notebook of memoranda of a miller (mugnaio), whose name is unreadable, for the years 1461-1498. Most of the transactions that are mentioned in the ledger are related to the sale of flour. There is also one transaction that deals with the rent of a mill, probably belonging to Alessandra Pandolfini, that is paid both in cash and in kind (with fish).

Notes

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

Extent

89 leaves : 150 x 101 mm. bound to 150 x 103 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 89; [1-89]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 8-16, 18-30, 32-77, 79-81, 83-87 are blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum; the heading Mugnaio, Alessandra Pandolfino "vedova di meglio" and 1461 on upper cover. Lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties. Decorative leatherwork on spine.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--15th century
• Flour mills--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Accounts
• 15th century
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy
• Financial records

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