Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 17th century.
Banks and banking -- Italy -- Florence -- Early works to 1800.
Banks and banking.
Accounting.
Italy -- Florence.
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 1609-1611. It contains a detailed list of transfers of large sums of money between the Medici bank of Florence and various counterparts, the most important being the banks of the Medici Capponi and other banks in Pisa, Siena, Rome and Naples, possibly branches of the Medici bank of Florence. There are also exchanges between the Medici bank of Florence and institutions of other cities, such as the Priore di Bologna (f. 33r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 48 + i (paper); each folio has the same number on both recto and verso; rectos numbered [1], 2-8, [9], 10-22, [23], 24, [25], 26-27, [28-32], 65-80, [with modern foliation 33-48], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-26, [27], [28-32], 65-80, [with modern foliation 33-48], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper left verso (leaves 28-32 and 46-48 are blank but ruled).
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 certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Couronne 4835 (Lucca, 1565-1566).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 154 on spine; the heading Quaderno di cambi, no. 220 and letter D 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 1609 (f. 1v) and 1611 (f. 25v).
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. 200 (Ms. Lea 262).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1315

OCLC:

298848793