[Notebook of Amadori memoranda].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Amadori, Andrea.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Amadori family.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Italy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

inventories

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

96 leaves : paper ; 209 x 139 mm bound to 214 x 142 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1537-1552.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Notebook of memoranda of Andrea Amadori for the years 1537-1552. Parts of it are written by Andrea Amadori in the first person. Most of the memoranda are either detailed descriptions of debts and credits, or inventories of possessions of Andrea Amadori and his family (including son Antonio and daughter Caterina). Debts, credits and similar transactions occur with workers, employees or business counterparts of Andrea Amadori. The circumstances that led to the creation of a debt or credit are carefully described, often with a narrative tone. In some of these transactions the name of Bartolomeo Amadori appears as one of the counterparts. Among the inventories there are detailed lists of clothing and property.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 96; [i], 1-93, [94-95]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Script: Written in cursive script, by multiple hands, including that of Andrea Amadori.

Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing large grapes.

Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 177 on spine; the heading Giornale e ricordi and letter C on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1537 (f. 1v) and 1552 (f. 93v).

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. 208 (Ms. Lea 309).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1375

OCLC:

302361735