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[Ledger of Medici accounts and memoranda].

Publication:
[Italy], 1456-1495.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
110 leaves : paper ; 283 x 218 mm bound to 288 x 220 mm
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Subjects:
Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 15th century.
Accounting.
Italy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Accounts.
Credit records.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Archives.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Ledger of accounts of the Medici estate for the years 1456-1495, written in the first person by an unnamed author. The list of the Medici properties mentioned in the ledger includes a main house in Florence; the magione di San Piero, in San Piero a Sieve, north of Florence; the podere La Pergola (?), in Palaia, between Pisa and Florence; and the Valdinievole farm and its stalls, right outside Florence. For every property there is a short list of expenses (related to household management and to the payment of wages of workers), revenues (related to small sales of produce, wine and oil), and a brief description of the property itself (stalls, houses and land). Memoranda include short descriptions of the circumstances that lead to an expense or a revenue and, sometimes, a longer description of the property.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 110; 2-15, 20-55, 58-68, 72-73, 77-85, 92-93, 103-107, 114-125, 127-134, 136-144, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (f.102 torn; f.126 severed; and f.5-9, 20-23, 33-37, 40-47, 50, 55, 58-63 and 72 blank but ruled).
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the date of the transaction and the large one on the right with a description of the transaction. Memoranda written in long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleur 6340 (Lucca, 1456), but with a longer stalk.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 22 on spine; the heading Ricordanze di beni et immobili di casa Medici, letter A with decorative penwork and no. 242 on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1456 (f. 2r) and 1495 (f. 32v).
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. 191 (Ms. Lea 212).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1435
OCLC:
311866307