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

Title

Notebook of Ridolfi accounts

Authors

• Ridolfi, Tommaso

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1422
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944530203503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310753622
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4453020

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1522-1549

Place

Italy

Summary

Notebook of accounts of Tommaso Ridolfi for the years 1522-1549, at least partially written by Tommaso Ridolfi and in the first person. Includes debts, credits and other transactions related to the textile business; in certain cases, various members of the Medici family acted as counterparts. Transactions related to household management are not uncommon, such as the purchase of food and furniture; the payment of wages of employees (such as the nanny and the farmer); and the purchase of clothes and shoes for Tommaso Ridolfi and his sister. The notebook also contains copies, transcribed and signed by Tommaso Ridolfi, of the receipts of tax payments (for a tax referred to in the manuscript as gabella) made by small towns that were under Florentine jurisdiction.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Ancre 444 (Florence, 1529), but with a larger crown and a thicker ring.

Extent

95 leaves : 289 x 213 mm. bound to 292 x 215 mm

Foliation

Paper, 95; 1-41, [42-95]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 42-64, 73-88 and 93-95 are blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 129 on spine; the heading Giornale, no. 190 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties. Decorative leatherwork on spine.

Script

Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands, including that of Tommaso Ridolfi.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Ambassadors--Italy--Florence--16th century

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1422: Notebook of Ridolfi accounts are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode