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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors and memoranda

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1451
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944677123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316066399
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4467712

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1566-1568

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of debtors and creditors, memoranda and miscellaneous accounts of Nicolo, Fabrizio and Luisa de' Medici, sons and wife of Luigi di Bivigliano de' Medici. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that hold the debt or credit; the memoranda include a brief history of how certain assets (often property or cattle) were acquired or how a particular event resulted in a debt; the miscellaneous accounts are often related to the payment of workers and servants, the price of harvests, and various credits and debts that are paid in kind (examples of the produce used for these payments are chestnuts, grains, cattle feed, cattle, and swine). A leaf, containing a description of how a worker, Rinaldo di Falente, became a debtor for a considerable amount of money towards Nicolo and Fabrizio de' Medici, is laid in the manuscript.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Arbalete 762 (Lucca, 1598), but without the fleur-de-lis.

Extent

176 leaves : 334 x 230 mm. bound to 351 x 232 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 176; versos numbered 1-113, [114-124], 125-130, [131-144], 145-166, [167-176], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-cxiii, [cxiiii-cxxiii], cxxv-cxxx, [cxxxi-cxxxxiiii], cxxxxv-cvxvi, [clxvii-clxxv], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (pages 114-124, 131-144 and 167-176 are blank). Each opening has a matched Arabic numeral on the left and a Roman numeral on the right.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 14 on spine; the heading Debitori, creditori, ricordi e altro, no. 137 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather strap; decorative leatherwork on spine. Fragment from an incunable containing a passage of Quintilian's Institutio oratoria inside upper cover.

Layout

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

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Farm management--Italy
• Farm life--Italy--History
• Accounting--Italy--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

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