[Notebook of memoranda].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Accounting--Italy--15th century.

Accounting.

Flour mills--Italy.

Flour mills.

Italy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

ledgers (account books)

Manuscripts, Italian -- 15th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Physical Description:

89 leaves : paper ; 150 x 101 mm bound to 150 x 103 mm + 1 folder (2 notes)

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1461-1498.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Notebook of memoranda of a miller (mugnaio), whose name is unreadable, for the years 1461-1498. Most of the transactions that are mentioned in the ledger are related to the sale of flour. There is also one transaction that deals with the rent of a mill, probably belonging to Alessandra Pandolfini, that is paid both in cash and in kind (with fish). 2 notes formerly laid in the manuscript are now in a separate folder shelved with the manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 89; [1-89]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 8-16, 18-30, 32-77, 79-81, 83-87 are blank).

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

Binding: Contemporary vellum; the heading Mugnaio, Alessandra Pandolfino "vedova di meglio" and 1461 on upper cover. Lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties. Decorative leatherwork on spine.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1461 (f. 1r) and 1498 (f. 17r).

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. 212 (Ms. Lea 340).

Cited as:

Notebook of memoranda (Ms. Codex 1418). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

310746438