Details

Subjects:

Medici, Carlo de'.
Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, House of.
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 the Medici family for the years 1543-1546. 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 Spedale di Santa Maria degli Innocenti (p. 8), a children's orphanage in Florence.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 48 leaves; versos numbered 1-35, [36-48], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-xii, [xiii], xiiii, [xv], xvi, [xvii], xviii-xxvi, [xxvii-xxviii], xxviiii, [xxx-xxxi], xxxii-xxxv, [xxxvi-xlvii], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (leaves after p. 35 are blank but ruled). 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.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 33 on spine; the heading Q[uadern]o di cassa dela suventione del anno 1543 di Carlo de' Medici, on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover with leather strap; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1543 (f. 1r) and 1546 (f. 34r).
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. 194 (Ms. Lea 228).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1288

OCLC:

291091885