Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
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 a brother of Alamanno de' Medici, whose name is not mentioned, for the years 1535-1544. Written by Francesco di Domenico di Nanni, who signed it repeatedly and on numerous pages, this ledger 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; it also lists various other expenses. Debtors and creditors are usually either tenants or employees of the brother of Alamanno de' Medici; expenses usually concern different aspects of farm management (including the sale or purchase of cattle, swine, feed and wheat). There are a few occurrences of money exchanges between Alamanno de' Medici and his brother. Foliation suggests that this was part of a larger manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 73; 14-86, contemporary foliation, upper right recto; 1-28, [29-73], near-contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (references in this record refer to the second foliation scheme).
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 appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages. Other expenses are written in long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands, including the one of Francesco di Domenico di Nanni.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Croix Grecque 5544 (Florence 1496-1498).
Binding: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1535 (f. 1r) and 1544 (f. 73r).
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 271).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1326

OCLC:

299568913