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Title

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors

Call number

Ms. Codex 1526
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4496311
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4496311

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1611-1616

Place

Florence

Summary

Ledger of credits and debts of the Medici family with Florentine and Pisan banks for the years 1611-1616. It consists of a detailed list of debts and credits of various members of the Medici family with a wide number of counterparts, both in Florence and Pisa. The Medici bank, which was run by members of the family, was one of the most powerful banks in Italy, and it was not uncommon for them to lend and borrow large amounts of money from other banks. These banks were also run by prominent families and the counterparts in the transactions that appear in the ledger are often members of other aristocratic families from Florence, the most important being the Capponi Medici (who had influence over the Pisan territory), the Gondi, the Acciaiuoli, Francesco Bernardo Riccardi and Carlo Paganelli. Another institutional counterpart that appears very frequently is the Monte di pietà of Florence. Very large single transactions, many in groups sharing the same settlement date, appear throughout the ledger.

Notes

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

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Ancre 491 (Florence, 1522), but with much larger arms and flukes.

Extent

50 leaves : 297 x 209 mm. bound to 310 x 216 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (paper) + 50; rectos numbered [i], 1-31, [32-49], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-31, [32-50], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso (p.32-50 are blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum; the heading Riscontro con li banchi, no. 244 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover.

Layout

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

Script

Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Monte di pietà (Florence, Italy)
• Banks and banking--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800
• Accounting--Italy--17th century

Genres

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

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