Details

Subjects:

Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, Bivigliano de'.
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 Bivigliano d'Alamanno de' Medici for the years 1513-1514. 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. Most transactions concern the payment of debts and credits between Bivigliano de' Medici and his servants or employees and sometimes payments are in kind (oil, wine, wheat, produce). Some transactions are payments to small shops or businesses (shoemaker, miller) from Bivigliano de' Medici and they are settled in cash.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 95; [1], 2-20, 22-96, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Decoration: Manicules (f. 45v, 80v, 84r, 87r).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 9 on spine; the heading Debitori e C[reditor]i on upper cover; upper cover wraps around lower cover with leather ties.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1513 and 1514 (f. 45r).
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. 206 (Ms. Lea 298).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1360

OCLC:

301807950