[Ledger of Medici accounts].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Medici, House of--Archives.

Medici, House of.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Italy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Archives.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

48 leaves : paper ; 334 x 115 mm bound to 337 x 128 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1542-1543.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1542-1543. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that hold the debt or credit. Among the names that appear throughout the ledger and who act as counterparts in the transactions, the most frequent are Carlo and Alamanno de' Medici; Alessandro Antinori; Leonardo and Piero Salviati; Carlo Capponi; Carlo Renzoni; Francesco Rucellai; Iacopo Guicciardini; Carlo Acciauoli; Jacopo della Fonte; and Leonardo de Fornari. Transactions are sometimes related to payments for produce or rent, as well as small debts and credits. Most of the individuals who appear in the ledger are members of different Florentine aristocratic families who worked for the Medici as diplomats or statesmen, but who also often acted as business counterparts.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 48; 1-44, [45-48], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 45-48 are blank but ruled).

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 a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Enclume, 5963 (Florence, 1514-29).

Binding: Modern vellum; previous binding had no. 164 on contemporary slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Italy, between 1542 (f. 1v) and 1543 (f. 7r).

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. 203 (Ms. Lea 281).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1340

OCLC:

300312616