[Notebook of memoranda]

Timespan:

15th century

Date:

1461

Description:

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).

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Subject:

Accounting -- Italy -- 15th century; Flour mills -- Italy; Flour mills; Accounting

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); accounts; ledgers (account books); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

89 leaves : paper; 150 x 101 mm bound to 150 x 103 mm + 2 notes

Geographic Subject:

Italy

Rights:

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

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.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1418