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Title

Ledger of accounts for the estate of Leonora Concini

Authors

• Medici, Camilla Concini

Call number

Ms. Codex 1485
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4482632
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4482632

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1646-1649

Place

Italy

Summary

Ledger of accounts of the inheritance of Leonora Concini marchesa di Monte, daughter of Giovanbattista Concini, for the years 1646-1649, probably written by Leonora's sister, Camilla Concini Medici. Often includes the nature of a payment received or disbursed and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that act as counterparts in the transactions. The first part of the ledger (f. 1v-6v) contains the payment received, and the second part (f. 20r-35v) contains the payments disbursed. Most of the transactions are, however, related to the large estate left by Leonora, containing liquid funds, real property, and valuable objects (some of which are sold); the estate of the marchesa included at least one house in Florence, and one outside the city, in San Giovanni Valdarno, and a part of the furniture and the works of art found therein are also sold. Credits owed by Florentine noblemen (including members of the Salviati and Capponi families and the Monte di Pietà and the Monte del Sale, both lending institutions of Florence) are settled with the heirs of Leonora. Likewise, unresolved debts with various counterparts are paid with some of the revenues derived from the inheritance. Salaries of employees and workers of Leonora (including a maid and various farmers) that were left unpaid at the time of her death were also paid with the aforementioned inheritance. A small number of debts with members of the Concini family, including Camilla herself and her sister Lucrezia, are also present in the ledger and settled. The present manuscript is smaller than the size of the original volume either covered by or planned for its binding and some leaves appear to be missing.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Forms part of: Concini Papers.
   

Watermark

Unidentified watermark containing a circle, an oblong human head with a thick neck and pointy nose and a crown.

Extent

35 leaves : 233 x 169 mm. bound to 246 x 178 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 35; [1], 2-35, contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 7-19 are blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, no. 80 on spine; heading Concini 1643 on upper cover; the heading Entrata e uscita, Marchesa Leonora Concini 1647 on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather tie.

Layout

Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the transaction and a brief description of it, and the smaller one on the right with its amount.

Script

Written in a cursive script, probably in the hand of Camilla Concini.

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--17th century

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Credit records
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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