Identifier:

*170/282.

Scope and content:

ff. 1-108v: Account book of bank business, on the verso of each leaf “dare,” on the recto “avere,” covering the years 1535-1536; among the persons and institutions that appear are the Università dell' arte della lana, and members of the noble Florentine families of Corbinelli, Della Fonte, Rucellai, Valori. ff. 109-240 (unnumbered) bounding lines and columns ruled but blank.

Acquisition information:

Written in Tuscany (Florence?) in 1535-1536. Carlo de' Medici may be the Carlo who was born probably before 1501, “senatore” in 1573, and died probably in the same year, son of Bernardo de' Medici, captain of Volterra in 1508; see P. Litta, Famiglie celebri italiane , 11 vols. (Milan, 1856-1885), vol. 2 fasc. 24: “Medici di Firenze, parte III,” tav. 6. Source and date of acquisition by UCLA are unknown.

Physical description:

Paper, ff. i (parchment) + 240 + i (parchment); 338 × 230 mm. 1-15 Bounding lines and vertical columns for figures ruled in leadpoint. Contemporary parallel foliation in arabic numbers on the upper left-hand corner of the verso, in roman numerals on the upper right-hand corner of the recto. Written in late Italian lettera mercantesca by one hand; dark brown ink.

Contemporary envelope-shaped binding in limp parchment, reinforced with four leather straps on the back and a fifth surrounding the volume, fastened by means of a metal buckle; on the front cover, by three different sixteenth-century Italian hands: “Q(uaderno) di Chassa Quarto”; “1535 del ... di Carlo Medici”; “n° 292.”

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