Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Farm life -- Italy -- History.
Farm management -- Italy.
Farm management.
Farm life.
History.
Accounting.
Italy -- Rural conditions.
Italy.
Rural conditions.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of the Medici family for the years 1595-1596. Often includes the nature of a given transaction and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that act as counterparts in the transaction. In most cases the transactions are in kind (examples of the produce used for these payments are chestnuts, grains, cattle feed, cattle, swine) but some cash transactions are also present. The counterparts in the transactions are often employees or tenants of the Medici family, and as such can pay in kind, or receive in kind payments. Also includes detailed production accounts of various farms, property of the Medici family, organized according to the produce (millet, chestnuts, barley, grains, feed, wine, oil); and detailed accounts of how said produce is distributed or used.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 96 + i (paper); rectos numbered [i], 1-61, [62-63], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1, [i-lxiii], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper left verso (leaves 62-63 are blank).
Layout: Written in 2 columns of equal size, with vertical bounding lines in lead; in certain cases one or both columns contain itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry. In the occurrence of both a debt and a credit with a specific counterpart, credits are usually listed in the left column and debts in the right column, with the same individuals appearing as debtors or creditors on facing columns. In certain cases, however, pages are written in 8 columns, a large one on the left, with the name of the farm, and 7 smaller ones on the right (one for each of the following: millet, chestnuts, barley, grains, feed, wine, oil), that contain numbers related to the distribution or use of the aforementioned produce. Also, when a closing paragraph at the end of a page is present, it is written in long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Sirene 13894 (Pisa, 1597).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 101 on spine; the heading Q[uader]no di possessione dell'anno 1595, no. 239 (?) on upper cover.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1595 (p.1) and 1596 (p.33).
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. 197 (Ms. Lea 248).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1304

OCLC:

297599189