Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1535-1536. 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. Among the names that appear throughout the ledger and who act as counterparts in the transactions, the most frequent are Ottaviano, Pasquale and Carlo de' Medici, Tolomeo Tolomei, Agnolo Doni, Carlo Gondi, Filippo Capponi, Francesco Rucellai.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 96; 1-8, 8-28, [29], 30-47, [48-95]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 48-95 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 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 a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5926 (Siena, 1524).
Binding: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy, between 1535 (f. 1v) and 1536 (f. 45v).
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 273).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1328

OCLC:

299512482