Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, Andrea de'.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 17th century.
Farm management -- Italy.
Farm life -- Italy -- History.
Farm life.
History.
Farm management.
Accounting.
Italy -- Rural conditions.
Italy.
Rural conditions.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts for the Valdinievole farm, property of Andrea de' Medici, written by Domenico di Giovanni Mongai, farm manager of the estate. It includes very detailed accounts of the everyday transactions that result from the management of the farm: examples of such transactions include the purchase of feed for the animals, or food for the farm manager and his wife, the sales of wine and oil to individuals and other farms, the expenses required to furnish the house or to replace broken pieces of furniture, or those necessary to shoe horses. The author, who writes in the first person, gives also information about donations that he makes to friends of the Medici family when they come and visit the farm, and of the produce that he sends to Andrea de' Medici (typically wine, oil, poultry and eggs).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Similar accounts for later years appear in Ms. Codex 1320, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 96 leaves + i (contemporary paper); 1r-1v, 2r-2v, 3r-3v, 4r-4v, 5r-5v, 6r-6v, 7-155, [i], 156-184, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts involved, and the smaller one on the right with the amount received or disbursed.
Script: Written in a cursive script, in the hand of Domenico Mongai.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Tete 15719 (Pisa, 1597-1602) but with a slimmer neck and more detailed crown.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 106 on spine; the heading Entrata e uscita e giornale, letter A with decorative penwork and no. 82 on upper cover; sketches and unreadable writing inside lower cover, which wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1623 (p. 1) and 1625 (p. 179).
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 265).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1319

OCLC:

298971290