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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts and memoranda

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1435
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944553943503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311867117
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4455394

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1456-1495

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of the Medici estate for the years 1456-1495, written in the first person by an unnamed author. The list of the Medici properties mentioned in the ledger includes a main house in Florence; the magione di San Piero, in San Piero a Sieve, north of Florence; the podere La Pergola (?), in Palaia, between Pisa and Florence; and the Valdinievole farm and its stalls, right outside Florence. For every property there is a short list of expenses (related to household management and to the payment of wages of workers), revenues (related to small sales of produce, wine and oil), and a brief description of the property itself (stalls, houses and land). Memoranda include short descriptions of the circumstances that lead to an expense or a revenue and, sometimes, a longer description of the property.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Fleur 6340 (Lucca, 1456), but with a longer stalk.

Extent

110 leaves : 283 x 218 mm. bound to 288 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, 110; 2-15, 20-55, 58-68, 72-73, 77-85, 92-93, 103-107, 114-125, 127-134, 136-144, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (f.102 torn; f.126 severed; and f.5-9, 20-23, 33-37, 40-47, 50, 55, 58-63 and 72 blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 22 on spine; the heading Ricordanze di beni et immobili di casa Medici, letter A with decorative penwork and no. 242 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 small column on the left with the date of the transaction and the large one on the right with a description of the transaction. Memoranda written in long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--15th century

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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