[Ledger of Medici accounts]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; 16th century

Date:

1540

Description:

Ledger of accounts of an unidentified member of the Medici family for the years 1540-1541. 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; Carlo Capponi; Carlo and Simone Renzoni; Francesco and Pandolfo Rucellai; Tommaso Martelli; Iacopo Guicciardini; Guglielmo Ubaldini; and Tommaso Cavalcanti. 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.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Subject:

Medici, House of Archives; Medici, House of; Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century; Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800; Textile industry; Accounting

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Accounts; Credit records; Ledgers (account books); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Archives; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

96 leaves : paper; 334 x 112 mm bound to 337 x 121 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, 96; [ii], 2-18, 18-47, [48-94]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 47-94 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 1540 (f. 1r) and 1541 (f. 45r).; Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1336