[Ledger of Amadori debtors and creditors].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Amadori, Andrea.

Amadori, Lorenzo.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Italy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

96 leaves : paper ; 265 x 193 mm bound to 267 x 195 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1515-1548.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Andrea and Lorenzo di Francesco Amadori for the years 1515-1548. 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 there are Francesco Amadori, Biagio and Leonardo Raglini, Giovanni Dalfano . The transactions concern small debts or credits between Andrea Amadori and various counterparts, including other members of the Amadori family but payments to professionals (including dyers, bakers and carpenters) for their services are not uncommon. There are also many transactions between Andrea and Lorenzo Amadori and their employees: in these cases the former often pay in cash, whereas the latter tend to pay in kind. A small number of transactions record the purchase of farm tools and products (feed, fertilizer). In certain cases there are notes on the production of oil and wine for single farms. Memoranda consist of more detailed descriptions of the circumstances that led to the creation of a debt or credit.

Contents:

1. f.1v-49v: [Debtors and creditors]

2. f.60v-84v: [Memoranda]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners (f. 85-96 are blank).

Layout: 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 or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions 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, Ancre 492 (Lucca, 1522); and unidentified watermark containing a fish in a double circle.

Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 175 on spine; the heading Debitori e creditori, no. 50 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1515 (f. 1v) and 1548 (f. 38v).

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. 206 (Ms. Lea 304).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1370

OCLC:

302271250