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[Ledger of Amadori accounts].

Author/Creator:
Montalvo, Antonio.
Publication:
[Italy], 1566-1572.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
95 leaves : paper ; 202 x 142 mm bound to 209 x 147 mm
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Subjects:
Amadori family.
Amadori, Francesco.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Farm management -- Italy.
Farm life -- Italy -- History.
Farm life.
History.
Farm management.
Accounting.
Italy -- Rural conditions.
Italy.
Rural conditions.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Accounts.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Ledger of miscellaneous accounts for the podere del Colle, located in Poggio alla Croce, a small town outside Florence, probably written by Antonio Montalvo, for the years 1566-1572. The property, recently acquired by Francesco Amadori at the time the manuscript was begun, appears to need extensive renovation. The ledger includes very detailed accounts on the everyday transactions that result from the management and renovation of the farm: examples of such transactions include the purchase of feed for the animals; the expenses required to furnish the house or to replace broken pieces of furniture, or to purchase manure and other fertilizers. Other expenses concern the payment of various workers who help renovate the farm (carpenters, builders, and artisans who make roofing tiles are among those who appear more frequently). In certain cases, there are small sales and purchases between different counterparts, usually involving building or farming materials, and the names that appear more frequently are Francesco di Bastiano, Simone di Cipriano and Stefano di Bartolomeo del Ruta. The cover of the manuscript is made from an earlier document on parchment, dated 1503 and written in Latin.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 95; versos numbered 1-89, [90-95], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], 1-89, [90-94], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (leaves after p.89 are blank). Each opening has a matched numeral on the left and on the right.
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with the a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts involved in the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount received or disbursed.
Script: Written in a cursive script, in the hand of Antonio Montalvo.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleur-de-lis 7104 (Rome, 1565).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 201 on spine; the heading Spese di Francesco Amadori on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1566 (f. 1v) and 1572 (f. 87v).
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. 208 (Ms. Lea 315).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1384
OCLC:
303495391