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[Ledger of Medici accounts].

Abstract:
Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the year 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. Among the names that appear throughout the ledger and who act as counterparts in the transactions, the most frequent are Alamanno, Ottaviano and Carlo de' Medici; Francesco, Giulietto and Girolamo Rucellai; Enzo and Alfonso Capponi; Pietro Salviati, Lapo del Tonaglia, Giovanbattista Bettini; and the Spedale di Santa Maria Novella. 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.
Timespan:
Italy.
Date:
1539
Identifier:
9944404943503681; (OCoLC)ocn299765555; (OCoLC)299765555; (PU)4440494-penndb-Voyager
Language:
Italian
Provenance:
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
Publisher:
[Italy], [1539?]
Subject:
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.; Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.; Textile industry.; Accounting.; Codices.; Accounts.; Credit records.; Ledgers (account books); Manuscripts, Italian.; Manuscripts, Renaissance.; Archives.
Form/Genre:
Manuscripts
Physical Description:
96 leaves : paper; 231 x 108 mm bound to 237 x 121 mm
Personal Name:
Medici, House of; Medici, House of.
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
Notes:
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.; Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, 96; [1], 2-43, [44-96]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 44-96 are blank but ruled).; Ms. codex.; Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.; Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleche 6299 (Florence, 1518-1528).; Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 164 on spine; the heading Richordi no. 11 on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.; Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1539.; Italian.
Physical Location:
Oversize Ms. Codex 1333