[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:

70 leaves : paper ; 329 x 115 mm bound to 336 x 120 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1547-1559.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1547-1559. 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 Alamanno de' Medici; Alessandro Antinori; Pietro Vittori; Mariotto Rucellai; Giovanbattista and Giovanantonio Detti (here written Deti); and Battista Sabatini. Transactions are sometimes related to the sale of textile products, or 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, 70; 1-3, [4-70], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
• Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small 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, Fleche 6299 (Florence, 1518-1528).
• Binding: Modern vellum; previous binding had no. 165 on contemporary slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Origin: Written in Italy between 1547 (f. 1r) and 1559 (f. 69r).
• 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. 204 (Ms. Lea 287).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1347

OCLC:

301229290