Details

Subjects:

Gondi family.
Catholic Church -- Italy -- Finance.
Santa Maria Novella (Church : Florence, Italy).
Ospedale degli Innocenti (Florence, Italy) -- History.
Ospedale degli Innocenti (Florence, Italy).
Catholic Church.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Accounting -- Italy -- 17th century.
Accounting.
History.
Finance.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts of the Gondi family for the years 1542-1618. Parts of it are written by Lorenzo di Mariotto Gondi, Antonio Gondi and Francesco di Lorenzo Gondi in the first person. Most transactions deal with the payment of rent, or the negotiation of said rent, between members of the Gondi family and the friars of the churches of Santa Maria Novella and Santa Maria degli Innocenti, two of the biggest and most important churches of Florence, which also often acted as hospitals and orphanages. The friars also appeared to engage in frequent exchanges of money with the Gondi family. These smaller transactions were probably loans. In the third section of the ledger, many friars personally write, sign and date short receipts that acknowledge the payment of variable amounts of money either from or to one or more members of the Gondi family. Memoranda, written in a more narrative tone, describe the circumstances that lead to the creation of a debt or credit.

Contents:

1. f.1v-16v: [Memoranda]
2. f.20v-70r: [Debtors and creditors]
3. f.81r-91v: [Receipts]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with 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. Memoranda written in long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands.
Decoration: Manicules, f. 9v, 13v, 14v, 17r, 17v, 58r, 59v, 64v, 65v, and 91v.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 77 on spine; the heading Libro di spese della casetta...1542, letter A and no.1 on upper cover; faded writing on lower cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1542 (f. 1v) and 1618 (f. 71v).
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. 209 (Ms. Lea 323).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1393

Contributor:

Gondi, Antonio.
Gondi, Francesco.

OCLC:

308592650