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[Ledger of Medici accounts and debtors and creditors].

Publication:
[Florence], 1538-1539.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
96 leaves : paper ; 336 x 227 mm bound to 350 x 240 mm
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Subjects:
Medici, House of -- Archives.
Medici, House of.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Accounting.
Italy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Accounts.
Credit records.
Ledgers (account books)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Archives.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1538-1539. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals or institutions that hold the debt or credit, the most important being Carlo di Umberto Acciaiuoli; Agnolo e Piero Salviati; Alessandro e Agnolo Antinori; Francesco Rucellai; Benedetto di Polito; Piero and Luigi Capponi; Ottaviano and Cosimo de' Medici; the Spedale di Santa Maria degli Innocenti (p. 8); the Capitolo delle monache delle convertite (p. 19), a nunnery for young women, often prostitutes, who converted to Catholicism; the Spedale di Santa Maria Novella (p. 22), a Florentine church which also offered medical help to pilgrims and those in need; and the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (p. 53). Transactions are sometimes related to payments for produce, rent or customs fees, as well as small debts and credits with workers (including a scribe and a road builder). Most of the individuals who appear in the ledger are, however, members of different Florentine aristocratic families with whom the Medici did business.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
For an alphabetical index to a ledger of accounts, dated 1539-1540, containing entries for many of the individuals mentioned in the present index, and written in a similar hand, see Ms. Codex 1540, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Very similar to Ms. Codex 1341, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Pagination: Paper, 96; versos numbered 1-89, [90-96], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-lxxxviiii, [lxxxx-lxxxxv], upper right recto (leaves after p.89 are blank but ruled). Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals appearing as debtors or creditors on facing pages. Other expenses are written in long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5922 (Siena, 1495-1524).
Binding: Modern cloth.
Origin: Written in Florence between 1538 (f. 1v) and 1539 (f. 19r).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A (3), Library Chronicle 36 (1970), no. 2, p. 98 (Ms. Lea 490).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1496
OCLC:
319699699