[Ledger of Gondi accounts].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Gondi, Simone.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Gondi family.

Gondi, Federico.

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:

42 leaves : paper ; 286 x 210 mm bound to 288 x 220 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1533-1535.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors and miscellaneous accounts of Federico Gondi for the years 1533-1535, at least partially written by Simone Gondi. Often includes the nature of a given debt or credit or other transaction, as well as listing the name of the individual who hold the debt or credit or who acts as counterpart in the transaction. Many transactions appear to concern the purchase of small art pieces, referred in the manuscript as formelle, from different artisans. Some the names that appear frequently in the ledger are those of Lorenzo Filippi, Lorenzo Manelli and Raffaello Damancore. They appear to be involved in the production of the farm referred to in the text as podere del Mugnale. Brief descriptions and accounts of said production (including data regarding the yearly production of wine, oil and grains) are also present. More farms and their respective accounts are also mentioned, although not as frequently. The cover of the manuscript is made from a vellum fragment of a 14th-century liturgical manuscript, with text written in two columns with red and blue initials and in a Gothic script.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 42; 1-4, 8-39, 45-50; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (f. 5-7, 40-44 missing, f. 4, 11-15 and 39-50 blank but ruled).

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 debt and credit. Itemized accounts of single transactions or long lines are also used.

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

Watermark: Very close match to Briquet, Croix Greque 5542.

Binding: Contemporary, 14th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch); no. 283 in upper left-hand corner; no. 127 on lower cover.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1533 (f. 1v) and 1535 (f. 10r).

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. 209 (Ms. Lea 322).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1392

OCLC:

308592588