[Notebook of memoranda].
- Publication:
- [Italy], 1461-1498.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
89 leaves : paper ; 150 x 101 mm bound to 150 x 103 mm + 2 notes - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
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- Subjects:
- Accounting -- Italy -- 15th century.
Flour mills -- Italy.
Flour mills.
Accounting.
Italy. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Accounts.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance. - Language:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- Notebook of memoranda of a miller (mugnaio), whose name is unreadable, for the years 1461-1498. Most of the transactions that are mentioned in the ledger are related to the sale of flour. There is also one transaction that deals with the rent of a mill, probably belonging to Alessandra Pandolfini, that is paid both in cash and in kind (with fish).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 89; [1-89]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 8-16, 18-30, 32-77, 79-81, 83-87 are blank).
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Binding: Contemporary vellum; the heading Mugnaio, Alessandra Pandolfino "vedova di meglio" and 1461 on upper cover. Lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties. Decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1461 (f. 1r) and 1498 (f. 17r).
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. 212 (Ms. Lea 340).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1418
- OCLC:
- 310746438