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[Ledger of Amadori debtors and creditors].

Publication:
[Italy], 1522-1528.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
88 leaves : paper ; 207 x 142 mm bound to 213 x 144 mm
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Subjects:
Amadori family.
Amadori, Andrea.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Accounting.
Italy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Accounts.
Credit records.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Ledger of debtors and creditors of Andrea di Lorenzo Amadori for the years 1522-1528. 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 Lorenzo and Jacopo Magniano, Lorenzo di Enzo da Gonnella and Giovanni Ridolfo. The transactions concern small debts or credits between Andrea Amadori and various counterparts, but payments to professionals (including dyers, bakers and carpenters) for their services are not uncommon. There are also many transactions between Andrea Amadori and his employees: in these cases the former often pays in cash, whereas the latter tend to pay in kind.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 88; [i], 1-87, 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 debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleur 6650 (Florence, 1442-1447).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 173 on spine; the heading Deb[ito]ri e creditori and letter C on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1522 (f. 1v) and 1528 (f. 83v).
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. 207 (Ms. Lea 305).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1371
OCLC:
302361659