[Notebook of Medici accounts].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Medici, House of--Archives.

Fanuchi, Quiricho.

Medici, House of.

Farm management--Italy.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Farm management.

Italy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Archives.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Physical Description:

48 leaves : paper ; 141 x 99 mm bound to 151 x 102 mm

Production:

[Florence?], 1581.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Notebook of accounts of the heirs of Carlo de' Medici for the year 1581 (the date 1591 appears once (f. 4r), possibly in error, since every other entry concerns the year 1581). The information contained in the notebook, referred to as riscontri, was provided by Quiricho di Jacopo Fanuchi, farmer for the estates of Bravieri and Valdinievole. The manuscript contains short descriptions of transactions related to farm management (e.g. for the purchase of seeds) as well as receipts of small payments, written in the first person, probably in the hand of the payees. The names that appear throughout the notebook are those of the heirs of Carlo de' Medici, and Lorenzo di Filippo Pelamasti(?) and Jacopo Fanuchi, farmers. The cover of the manuscript was made with a 15th-century vellum leaf containing a passage of a theological or legal work, written in a Gothic script, in two columns, and with paragraph marks in red and blue ink.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 48; 1-2, [3-48]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.

Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a teardrop-shaped shield, a horse(?), and a rhomboidal decorative figure on top.

Binding: 15th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch); the heading Bravieri on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather tie.

Origin: Probably written in Florence in 1581 (f. 1r).

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: Supplement A (3), Library Chronicle 36 (1970), no. 2, p. 101 (Ms. Lea 501).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1525

OCLC:

355813773