Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th 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, Renaissance.
Archives.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of receipts, perhaps of Alamanno de' Medici, for the years 1537-1556. The transactions whose receipts are recorded in the ledger usually concern harvests or revenues derived from the sale of harvests. For most occurrences, the amount of the transaction (either the value of the harvest or the revenue from the sale of a harvest or percentages of it) is recorded. In certain cases, the name of the harvester is also present.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 50 + i (paper); 1-39, [40-50]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Sometimes long lines are also used.
Script: Written in cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 165 on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1537 (f. 1r) and 1556 (f. 50v).
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 272).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1327

OCLC:

299512460