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Title

Ledger of Gondi accounts

Authors

• Padovani, Francesco

Call number

Ms. Codex 1512
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4489966
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4489966

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1711-1713

Place

Florence

Summary

Ledger of miscellaneous accounts of Caterina Gondi (whose name appears throughout the ledger as Caterina nella Quiete o del Castello, these being two of the Gondi farms and country residences) for the years 1711-1713, probably written by the bursar or spenditore Francesco Padovani. The first part of the ledger contains a detailed list of expenses related to food and drink and records the amount of every transaction. All the foods that appear throughout the ledger are typical Tuscan foods and the most frequent are bread and cakes (including cantucci and a milk cake); pasta; meat (roast veal, pork and pigeon, geese, lamb, sausages, fried or fatty liver in various dishes, tongue, and larks); fish (salted or boiled cod, anchovies, sturgeon eggs, trout, mullet, and sole); fruit and vegetables (artichokes, asparagus, cherries, lettuce, porcini and prataioli mushrooms, peas, pink apples, chickpeas, pears, and figs); cheese (ricotta, parmesan, and sheep's cheese, both aged and fresh); salt, wine, eggs and sugar. Sometimes the dish for which the ingredient is purchased is also mentioned (for example, chickpeas to prepare a legume soup). The second part of the ledger contains more detailed, itemized accounts for the aforementioned expenses, and such records include the names of the counterparts, which were mostly farmers, bakers and butchers from whom produce and bread were purchased; for such accounts, copies of receipts of payments are also present. Accounts for expenses related to clothes, shoes and furniture also appear in the ledger, but not very frequently.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Agneau pascal 48 (Florence, 1498), but with the initials A P underneath; unidentified watermark containing an empty coat of arms, geometric decorations and the initials A B underneath; and unidentified watermak containing two small circles and two short converging lines.

Extent

207 leaves : 382 x 132 mm. bound to 402 x 143 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 207 + i (paper); [1], 2-207, contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f.199-207 are blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment; no. 63 in ink and no. 64 on a label on spine.

Layout

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

Script

Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands, including that of Francesco Padovani.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--18th century
• Cookery, Italian--History
• Food habits--Italy--Florence--History--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Ledgers (account books)
• Receipts
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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