Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, Vincenzo de'.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 17th century.
Accounting.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of Vincenzo de' Medici for the years 1603-1606. 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. The counterparts in the transactions are often members of other aristocratic families from Florence, the most important being the Albizzi, the Capponi, the Morelli and the Strozzi. Less frequent are other kinds of counterparts, such as employees or tenants of the Vincenzo de' Medici, who can pay in kind, or receive in kind payments. The memoranda, more detailed descriptions of the aforementioned transactions, with descriptions of the events which lead to a debt or a credit, are scattered throughout the accounts.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger
Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 162 + i (paper); each folio has the same number on both recto and verso; rectos numbered [i], 1-44, [45], 46-102, [103-162, contemporary numeration 83-142], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-40, [41], 42-102, [103-162, contemporary numeration 82-142], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper left verso (leaves 137-139 and 142 are blank but ruled).
Layout: Written for the most part in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number or the year in which the transaction took place, the large central column with the transaction and a brief description of it, and the smaller one on the right with its amount in arabic numerals. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry. In certain cases, there is a variable number of columns, from 2 to 8, and each column also contains itemized accounts of a transaction, as mentioned before, or descriptions of the events which lead to a transaction.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Homme 7629 (Rome, 1566).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 59 on spine; the heading Giornale e ricordanze, no. 221 and letter B with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1603 (f. 1v) and 1606 (f. 141r).
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. 198 (Ms. Lea 253).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1307

OCLC:

298213299