Details

Subjects:

Amadori family.
Accounting -- Italy -- 17th century.
Accounting.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Accounts.
Credit records.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of Niccolo Amadori for the years 1600-1609. Parts of the memoranda are written by Niccolo Amadori in the first person. Contains detailed records of the transactions related to the use of a financial instrument, probably bills of exchange. A bill of exchange is a written order by one person to his bank to pay the bearer a specific sum on a specific date. Prior to the advent of paper currency, bills of exchange were a common means of exchange. Niccolo Amadori frequently appears to be involved in such transactions both as the writer of bills of exchange and as a receiver of them. The amounts of the transactions that appear in the ledger vary considerably. Among the names of the counterparts mentioned in the manuscript are those of Pandolfo Pandolfini, Lorenzo and Ottavio Ricciardi, Lorenzo and Vincenzo Ricasoli, Vincenzo de' Medici and various members of the Medici Capponi family. A letter, dated 1599, signed by Baccio Tovaglia and addressed to Niccolo Amadori in Piacenza, is laid in the manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, i (paper) + 127 + i (paper); versos numbered 1-127, contemporary pagination in ink, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-xxiii, [xxiiii], xxv-lv, [lvi], lvii-cxxi, [cxxii-cxxiiii], cxxv, [cxxvi-cxxvii], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small one on the right with the amount of the transaction.
Script: Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Agneau pascal 48 (Florence, 1498).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 153 on spine; the heading Quaderno di cambi and letter B 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 1600 (f. 1v) and 1609 (f. 121r).
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 317).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1387

OCLC:

307462628