[Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors and memoranda].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Medici, House of--Archives.

Medici, House of.

Medici, Andrea de'.

Medici, Vincenzo de'.

Leo XI, Pope, 1535-1605.

Leo.

Farm management--Italy.

Farm management.

Farm life--Italy--History.

Farm life.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Accounting--Italy--17th century.

Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Textile industry.

History.

Italy--Rural conditions.

Italy.

Rural conditions.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century.

Manuscripts, Italian -- 17th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, European.

Archives.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

96 leaves : paper ; 343 x 118 mm bound to 347 x 129 mm + 1 folder (1 bifolium, 16 notes)

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1595-1603.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors and memoranda of Vincenzo and Andrea de' Medici (f. 83r) for the years 1595-1603. 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. Transactions are usually related to small purchases of textile products (especially wool), farm products (wine, oil) or to the payment of the wages of workers and servants. Transactions concerning farm management also appear and they are frequently related to the care of horses or land. In certain cases, there are mentions of sales of real estate. Most of the counterparts in the transactions are either employees or servants of Vincenzo and Andrea de' Medici, but the names of Filippo Salviati and Filippo d'Alamanno de' Medici, members of the Florentine aristocracy and relatives of Andrea and Vincenzo, appear throughout the ledger. A letter laid in the manuscript, dated 1605, and addressed to Vincenzo de' Medici, expresses concern for the deteriorating health of the Pope, Leo XI (formerly Alessandro de' Medici). It appears to be written by a friend of the Medici family, Camillo Salimbeni (?). This letter (written on a bifolium) and 16 notes formerly laid in the manuscript are in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 96; most folios have the same number on both recto and verso; rectos numbered 1-28, 30-38, [39], 40, [41], 42-86, [87-97], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-28, 30-47, [48], 49-56, [57], 58, [59], 60-72, [73], 74-86, [87-97], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper left verso; (folios 87-97 are blank).

Layout: Debtors and creditors written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit and debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the debt or credit. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts are listed on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals and institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages on some cases. Memoranda written in long lines.

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

Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing an eagle, a star and a circle.

Decoration: Manicule (f. 26v).

Binding: Modern vellum.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1595 (f. 1r) and 1603 (f. 84v).

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 295).

Cited as:

Ledger of Medici Debtors and Creditors (Oversize Ms. Codex 1356). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

301726577