[Ledger of Medici accounts].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Medici, House of--Archives.

Medici, House of.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Accounting--Italy--17th century.

Farm life--Italy--History.

Farm life.

Farm management--Italy.

Farm management.

History.

Italy--Rural conditions.

Italy.

Rural conditions.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, European.

Archives.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

190 leaves : paper ; 247 x 180 mm bound to 261 x 183 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1594-1637.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1594-1637. It includes a detailed list of the transactions which took place in some of the farms of the Medici estate (including Castagnuolo and Marciolla) and the revenues derived from selling produce and harvests. Data on the production and sale of oil and wine appear frequently. Produce details (different kinds of wheat or olives, or variants of beans) and sowing techniques used (with or without using oxen) are also noted. Small debts and credits between the owner (or owners) of the estates and employees are also present, and often workers paid their debts in kind.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 190; [1-190]; modern foliation in pencil, irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in long lines. Sometimes itemized accounts of a single transaction are also present.

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

Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 100 on spine, heading Libro di possessioni, and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1594 (f. 1v) and 1637 (f. 82r).

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. 205 (Ms. Lea 294).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1355

OCLC:

301724311