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[Ledger of Medici accounts].

Publication:
[Italy], 1543-1546.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
80 leaves : paper ; 330 x 116 mm bound to 335 x 127 mm
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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 accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1543-1546. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals or institutions 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 Simone Lotti; Antonio Cavalcanti; Antonio Bandovinetti; Andrea Mannucci; Vincenzo Ferrini; Francesco Lapi; the podestà€ (highest authority of the city) of San Gimignano; the captain (important member of the city council) of Montepulciano; the community of Volterra; and the city of Bibiena. Transactions are for the most part related to payments of taxes from small villages, and debts and credits. Some of the individuals who appear in the ledger are members of different Florentine aristocratic families who worked for the Medici as diplomats or statesmen, but who also often acted as business counterparts. In certain cases employees and farmers who worked for the Medici family also appear, together with institutional officers of cities close to Florence.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 80; [1], 2-51, [52-80], 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.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5926 (Siena, 1524).
Binding: Modern vellum; previous binding had no. 164 on contemporary slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Italy between 1543 (f. 1v) and 1546 (f. 78r).
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. 203 (Ms. Lea 284).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1343
OCLC:
300459361