[Ledger of Medici accounts]
- Description
- Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1541-1542. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals that hold the debt or credit. Among the names that appear throughout the ledger and who act as counterparts in the transactions, the most frequent are Carlo and Alamanno de' Medici; Alessandro Antinori; Leonardo and Piero Salviati; Carlo Capponi; Carlo Renzoni; Francesco Rucellai; Tommaso Martelli; Iacopo Guicciardini; Bartolomeo Ugolini; Giovanni Boni; Tommaso Cavalcanti; and the monks of the Basilica di San Lorenzo. Transactions are sometimes related to the sale of textile products, or to payments for produce or rent, as well as small debts and credits. Most of the individuals who appear in the ledger are members of different Florentine aristocratic families who worked for the Medici as diplomats or statesmen, but who also often acted as business counterparts.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- accounts
- credit records
- ledgers (account books)
- Manuscripts, Italian
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1541
- Language
- Italian
- Subject
- Medici, House of Archives
- Medici, House of
- Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century
- Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800
- Textile industry
- Accounting
- Geographic Subject
- Italy
- Extent
- 96 leaves : paper ; 334 x 116 mm bound to 337 x 126 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Paper, 96; [i], 1-2, iii, 4-54, [55-95], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 55-95 are blank but ruled).
- Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Sometimes long lines are also used.
- Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
- Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleche 6299 (Florence, 1518-1528).
- Binding: Modern vellum; previous binding had no. 164 on contemporary slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Origin: Written in Italy, between 1541 (f. 1r) and 1542 (f. 53r).
- Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
- Italian.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hx15t81
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1339
- Provenance
- Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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