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[Ledger of Medici accounts].

Publication:
[Italy], 1608-1609.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
87 leaves : paper ; 312 x 202 mm bound to 316 x 214 mm + 1 note
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Subjects:
Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, Andrea de'.
Medici, Vincenzo de'.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 17th century.
Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Textile industry.
Accounting.
Italy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Accounts.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Archives.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Ledger of accounts of the brothers Andrea and Vincenzo de' Medici, sons of Carlo de' Medici, for the years 1608-1609. 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. Most of the transactions are related to the buying and selling of textile products (usually silk).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 87; [1-87], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Agneau pascal 48 (Florence, 1498).
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1608 (f. 1r) and 1609 (f. 59r).
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. 199 (Ms. Lea 260).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1313
OCLC:
298561258