Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
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 the Medici family for the years 1603-1606. It consists of a detailed review of accounts, especially debts of an often unspecified member (or members) of the Medici family with external counterparts or other members of the family. An account review is a (usually yearly) recap of pending debts for counterparts with whom the debtor already has an existing business relationship of some kind. Often includes the name of the counterpart of a given transaction as well as listing the amount of the transactions. The counterparts in the transactions are often members of other aristocratic families from Florence, the most important being the Capponi Medici (who also had influence over the Pisan territory) , the Morelli and the Strozzi. The names of Francesco, Giambattista and Lorenzo de' Medici appear on numerous occasions, and they are presented as both creditors and debtors at different moments.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger
Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 95 + i (paper); [i], 1-4, [5], 6-50, [51-95], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (leaves 41-95 are blank but ruled). The first 11 openings have a numeral on the left to match the foliation on the right.
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart in the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction in arabic numerals. In the occurrence of both a debt and a credit with a specific counterpart, credits are usually listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Ange 675 (Pisa, 1569).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 54 on spine; the heading Riscontri di banchi 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. 41r).
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 254).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1308

OCLC:

298261216