Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, House of.
Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy).
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Accounting.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Accounts.
Credit records.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Archives.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Carlo de' Medici for the years 1540-1556. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals or institutions that hold the debt or credit, the most important being the Chiesa di Santa Lucia a Trespiano (p. 1), one of the oldest Florentine churches; the Capitolo dei Monaci di Volterra (p. 7), a large monastery in Volterra, a Tuscan city that came under the control of the Medici family in 1530; Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (p. 2); the Chapitolo and Convento delle monache di Santa Verdiana (p. 23), a monastery affiliated with the Medici family; and the Arte della lana (p. 81), one of the most important guilds of Florence. Also includes a few brief personal statements by Carlo de' Medici.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 207; versos numbered 1-207, contemporary foliation in ink, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-xxxiiii, [xxxv], xxxvi-l, [li], lii-liiii, [lv], lvi-lviii, [lviiii], lx-lxii, [lxiii-lxvi], lxvii-lxxxxvii, [lxxxxviii], lxxxxviiii, [c], ci-cxxviii, [cxxviiii], cxxx-cxxxii, [cxxxiii-cxxxiiii], cxxxv-cxxxviii, [cxxxviiii], cxxxx-clii, [cliii], cliiii-ccvi, contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.
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 in arabic numerals. 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.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Lettre S, 9079 (Pisa, 1541) (p. 1-143); Aigle 89 (Florence, 1501) (after p. 144).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 31 on spine; the heading Quaderno, no. 303 and letter B with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover; remnants of leather ties and decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy, between 1540 (f. 1v) and 1556 (f. 206v).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

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. 193 (Ms. Lea 224).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1283

OCLC:

289034317