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[Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors].

Publication:
[Italy], 1521-1534.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
143 leaves : paper ; 286 x 109 mm bound to 293 x 116 mm + 2 notes
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Subjects:
Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, Fernando de'.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Accounting.
Italy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Accounts.
Credit records.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Archives.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Ledger of debtors and creditors of Fernando Alamanni de' Medici for the years 1521-1534. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that hold the debt or credit. Exchanges of money between Fernando and other members of the Medici family (including Enzo, Francesco and Ottaviano) were quite common. In certain cases, debts were paid in kind (especially with swine).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 143; [i], 1-32, 34, [35], 36, [37], 38-43, [44], 45-47, [48-64], 65-69, [70], 71-99, [100-120], 120-123, [124-128], 129-136, [137-142]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (folios 18-68, 73-76, 78-84, 87-100 are blank but ruled).
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleur (Florence, 1496).
Binding: Modern vellum. Previous binding had no. 164 on slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Italy between 1521 (f. 1v) and 1534 (f. 100r).
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. 201 (Ms. Lea 269).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1323
OCLC:
299070388