[Ledger of Medici receipts].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Medici, House of--Archives.

Medici, House of.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Farm management--Italy.

Farm management.

Farm life--Italy--History.

Farm life.

History.

Italy--Rural conditions.

Italy.

Rural conditions.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Archives.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

50 leaves : paper ; 279 x 109 mm + 1 folder (4 notes)

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1537-1556.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of receipts, perhaps of Alamanno de' Medici, for the years 1537-1556. The transactions whose receipts are recorded in the ledger usually concern harvests or revenues derived from the sale of harvests. For most occurrences, the amount of the transaction (either the value of the harvest or the revenue from the sale of a harvest or percentages of it) is recorded. In certain cases, the name of the harvester is also present. 4 notes previously laid in the manuscript are now in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 50 + i (paper); 1-39, [40-50]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Sometimes long lines are also used.

Script: Written in cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 165 on spine.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1537 (f. 1r) and 1556 (f. 50v).

Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 201 (Ms. Lea 272).

Cited as:

Ledger of Medici Receipts (Oversize Ms. Codex 1327). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

299512460