Details

Subjects:

Amadori family.
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 1537-1556. Parts of it are written by Andrea Amadori in the first person. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals and institutions that hold the debt or credit, the most important being Filippo di Francesco Girolami, Bernardo and Tolomeo Neri, Francesco di Piero Bandini 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 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. The names of Girolamo Amadori, son of Andrea, and of Francesco di Andrea Amadori appear throughout the ledger as being counterparts in transactions together with Andrea Amadori. A contract, written in Florence by a notary and dated 1548, concerning the sale of a farm owned by Antonio di Taddeo Datti is laid in the manuscript. A short note where the counterpart in the transaction, Leonardo Santini, agrees to pay a set amount of money for the purchase of said farm is also laid in the manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 196; rectos numbered [ii], 1-160, [161-194]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (f.161-193 blank). The versos of f.102-160 have the same number as on the recto, upper left verso.
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, by multiple hands, including that of Andrea Amadori.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Ciseaux 3681 (Siena, 1419); and Letter M 8353 (Florence, 1442-1445).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 176 on spine; the heading Debitori, creditori e ricordi and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather straps; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1537 (f. 1r) and 1556 (f. 145v).
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 310).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1379

OCLC:

302411909