[Ledger of Medici accounts].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Medici, House of--Archives.
• Medici, Fabrizio de'.
• Medici, House of.
• Accounting--Italy--16th century.
• Farm life--Italy--History.
• Farm management.
• Farm life.
• History.
• Accounting.
• Italy--Rural conditions.
• Italy.
• Rural conditions.
• Farm management--Italy.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• accounts
• credit records
• ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.
• Archives.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

192 leaves : paper ; 351 x 136 mm bound to 354 x 140 mm + 1 note

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1559-1579.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of Fabrizio de' Medici for the years 1559-1579. 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, and the date on which payments are due. Transactions are sometimes related to payments for produce or rent, as well as small debts and credits between Fabrizio de' Medici and his employees. Transactions regarding farm or household management are very common and appear throughout the ledger: for these transactions detailed information is often given, as well as the prices of the products and the reason for the purchase. Sometimes the name of the counterpart is also recorded. The memoranda contain more information regarding individual debts and credits, such as the circumstances that lead to the debt or credit, as well a more detailed list of farm or household management product purchases. Flyleaves (formerly the cover) are vellum, from a 14th-century manuscript of the Corpus juris civilis, written in two columns, in a Gothic script with red and blue initials, with surrounding commentary text. Parts of the texts are missing.

Contents:

• 1. f.1v-142v: [Accounts]
• 2.f.143r-179r: [Memoranda]

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Foliation: Paper, i (parchment) + 192 + i (parchment); 1-192; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (leaves 180-192 are blank).
• 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 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. Memoranda written in long lines.
• Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
• Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Homme 7573 ( Milan, 1590), but with a more triangular body.
• Binding: Modern vellum.
• Origin: Written in Italy between 1559 (f. 1v) and 1579 (f. 141v).
• 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 290).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1351

Contains:

Codex (Corpus juris civilis)

OCLC:

301577411