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Title

Ledger of Medici accounts

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1524
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944962833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/355680197
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4496283

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1581-1583

Place

Florence

Summary

Ledger of debtors, creditors, and accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the year 1581-1583. The ledger, written in the first person, often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals or institutions that hold the debt or credit, the most important being various members of the Medici family, including Carlo de' Medici and his heirs; Vincenzo de' Medici; Elisabetta (referred to as Lisabetta) de' Medici; Giulio de' Medici; Bernardo de' Medici; Camillo Medici; numerous workers (including farmers, shoemakers; and wool workers); the Monte di pietà of Florence; Piero Pagni; Lionardo Giraldi (husband of Elisabetta de' Medici); Matteo di Francesco Brocchi; Filippo Spinelli; Vincenzo Latini; Francesco Risaliti; and Giovanbattista Detti. Contains accounts related to a large number of different activities, including the management of farms located in the Maremma, outside Florence (in particular, most transactions concern expenses for the well-being of horses and cattle); trades and payments made to members of the guild of the Lanaioli for services or for the purchase of textile products; expenses related to household management; and transactions with two booksellers, referred to as librai (p. 11 and p. xi).

Notes

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

Watermark

Unidentified watermark containing a shield with mountains, a tree(?) and leaves.

Extent

61 leaves : 352 x 254 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 61; rectos numbered [i], i-lix, [lx], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-60, [61], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso.

Support

Paper

Layout

Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number or the year in which the transaction took place, the large central column with the transaction and a brief description of it, and the smaller one on the right with its amount in Arabic numerals. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry. In the occurrence of both a debt and a credit with a specific counterpart, credits are usually listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy)
• Accounting--Italy--16th century
• Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Farm life--Italy--History
• Farm management--Italy

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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