Details

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