Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Farm life -- Italy -- History.
Farm life.
History.
Accounting.
Italy -- Rural conditions.
Italy.
Rural conditions.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Accounts.
Credit records.
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 1549-1569. The transactions 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. Sometimes debts are settled in cash, but more often they are paid in kind (oil, wheat, wine). Carlo de' Medici appears throughout the ledger both as a debtor (who pays in cash) and as a creditor (who is often paid in kind). One of the notes laid in the manuscript contains the total for both debts and credits, organized by month and by year, for the years 1557-1572.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 70; i-xxii, 23-40, [41], 42-70; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small 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, Enclume, 5963 (Florence, 1514-29).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 165 on spine; the heading Q[uadern]uccio terzo, debitori e creditori and letter C on upper cover.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1549 (f. 1r) and 1569 (f. 69r).
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. 204 (Ms. Lea 288).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1348

OCLC:

301238835