Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
accounts.
credit records.
Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Archives.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of debtors and creditors of Carlo de' Medici for the years 1530-1535. 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 Carlo 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 Carlo de' Medici and they are settled in cash. The name of Bivigliano d'Alamanno de' Medici appears throughout the ledger as a creditor of Carlo de' Medici.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 97; [1], 2-48, [49-52], 53-70, [71-72], 73-74, [75-76], 76, [77-95]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Binding: Contemporary vellum (binding waste), from a leaf of a contemporary liturgical manuscript; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties.
Origin: Written in Italy, between 1530 (f. 1r) and 1535 (f. 89r).
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 299).

Cited as:

Ledger of Medici Debtors and Creditors (Ms. Codex 1364). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

301949850