Details

Subjects:

Gondi family.
Gondi, Ludovico.
Accounting -- Italy -- 17th century.
Food habits -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 17th century.
Food habits.
History.
Accounting.
Italy -- Florence.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts for household expenses of Ludovico di Mariotto Gondi for his estate located in the Mugello, a prestigious rural region north of Florence. The first part of the ledger contains daily records of expenses related to food and drink and contains the amount of every transaction. All the foods that appear throughout the ledger are typical Tuscan foods and the most frequent are bread (including a specialty bread called pan tondo) and cakes (ciambelline and cannoli); pasta; meat (roast and boiled veal, pork and pigeon, lamb, ham, different types of sausages, and assorted small birds); fish and shellfish (fresh water fish, caviar, cod, herrings, oysters and crab); fruit and vegetables (peas, broccoli, cauliflower, squash, beans, chickpeas and asparagus); cheese (ricotta, parmesan, and sheep's cheese); salt and sugar. The second part of the ledger contains a list of the guests who visited the Mugello estate and ate lunch or dinner (in certain cases, both). Both the food accounts and the guest records are kept daily.

Contents:

1. f.2r-80v: Spese di vitto.
2. f.81r-96v: Gente che vengono a mangiare a casa.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 96 + i (paper); 1-96; 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 description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. Sometimes long lines are used to write a closing statement (usually one for each month).
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary parchment, no. 31 on spine; the heading Spese giornali di vitto del anno 1664 on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1664 (f. 1r) and 1668 (f. 60v).
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. 210 (Ms. Lea 326).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1398

OCLC:

309216599