Details

Subjects:

Gondi family.
Gondi, Federigo.
Gondi, Alfonso.
Gold -- Early works to 1800.
Mints -- Italy.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Accounting.
Mints.
Gold.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Ledger of accounts and debtors and creditors of the gold beaters and gold merchants Federigo and Alfonso Gondi, sons of Giovanni di Leonardo Gondi, for the years 1506-1537. 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 and frequent being various members of the Antinori family and the comune of Florence, business counterparts of the Gondi brothers, doing business with them for over thirty years. In particular, the comune relied on gold artisans and merchants like the Gondi to acquire large amounts of precious metals to use for minting. Most of the transactions are related to the revenues and expenses derived from gold beating. Debts and credits with the Antinori and the Comune of Florence, as well as with other gilders and gold beaters, are common, and so are transactions with workers and employees of the family business. Expenses to purchase raw materials are also present.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 88; versos numbered 1-83, [84-88], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-lxxxiii, [lxxxiiii-lxxxvii], upper right recto (leaves after p.83 are blank). Each opening has a matched Arabic numeral on the left and a Roman numeral on the right.
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Chapeau 3373 (Florence, 1476).
Binding: Modern cloth.
Origin: Written in Florence between 1506 (f.1r) and 1537 (f.82v).
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 (4), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), no. 1, p. 7 (Ms. Lea 516).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1499

OCLC:

319874282