Details

Subjects:

Amadori family.
Amadori, Bartolomeo.
Amadori, Francesco.
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 Bartolomeo and Francesco di Andrea Amadori 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 that hold the debt or credit, the most important being Niccolo and Bartolomeo Pieri, Giuliano di Giovanni Battaglia, Alessandro and Tolomeo Talani, Filippo di Francesco Girolami, Domenico Mori and the Comune di Firenze. The Comune di Firenze appears to have borrowed a large sum of money from the Amadori family. The transactions concern debts or credits between Bartolomeo and Francesco di 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 Bartolomeo and Francesco di Andrea Amadori and his employees: in these cases the former often pay in cash, whereas the latter tend to pay in kind. The name of Francesco di Andrea Amadori appears throughout the ledger as being a partner in transactions with Bartolomeo Amadori.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 192; versos numbered 1-191, contemporary foliation in arabic numerals in ink, upper left verso; rectos numbered irregularly in roman numberals, 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, Ancre 492 (Lucca, 1522).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 178 on spine; the heading Debitori, creditori e ricordi and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1543 (f. 1v) and 1546 (f. 146v).
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 311).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1380

OCLC:

302411888