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Title

Ledger of Guasconi debtors and creditors and memoranda

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1425
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944535393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310915960
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4453539

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1544-1557

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors and memoranda of Pierantonio Guasconi for the years 1544-1557. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals and institutions that hold the debt or credit. Among the names that appear throughout the ledger are Cosimo de' Medici; Raffaello and Ginevra di Ridolfo Torrigiani; Filippozzo di Lorenzo Gualterotti; Domenico di Piero Migliorati; Girolamo Lenzoni; and the comune of Florence. Most transactions appear to be debts or credits settled in cash and the counterparts are either members of the Florentine aristocracy, or the comune of Florence (that often needed private sources of credit to finance its activities). However, there are a number of transactions with workers such as a butcher, a carpenter, various builders, a perfume maker and a spice merchant, who were paid for their services. Pierantonio Guasconi owned and rented properties in Florence and at the countryside: in the ledger there are records of the payment of rent for a farm, referred to as Podere Antella, and for a house, located in the city, referred to as casa di citta. Memoranda contain descriptions of the circumstances that lead to the creation of a debt or a credit and often include the name of the counterparts and of the notary who supervised the transaction. Some household accessory inventories for the properties of the Guasconi estate are also present (furniture, linen and kitchen tools are among the items that appear in the inventories).

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5922 (Siena, 1495-1524).

Extent

135 leaves : 277 x 213 mm. bound to 290 x 217 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 135; [1-135], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; irregular contemporary pagination in Roman and Arabic numbers in ink, upper outer corners (f.114-117 and 131-135 are blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum; the heading Debitori e creditori di Pierantonio Guasconi on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

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 credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages. Memoranda written in long lines.

Script

Written in cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--16th century

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Debtors and creditors, f. 1r