University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1276

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1006

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1276

Title:

Property inventory of Bivigliano de' Medici.

Author:

Medici, Bivigliano de'

Bivigliano de' Medici WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

1534-1544.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 64 leaves : paper ; 266 x 213 mm bound to 271 x 215 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 64; 1-64; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto (leaves after f.42 are blank but ruled).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 2 or 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column in the center contains a detailed description of the property and sometimes a brief history of it; the smaller columns on the left and on the right sometimes contain arabic numbers or short notes.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Decoration: Manicule (f.39r).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Chapeau, 3370 (Florence, 1465-67) but with a more triangular shape below the hat.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 9 on spine; no. 52 on upper cover; L[ybro] di beni [?] e altre cose importante di Bivigliano d'Alamanno de' Medici, addi p[rimo] di gennaio on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover; remnants of leather ties, decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Florence, between 1534 (f.1r) and 1544 (f.41v).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

Archives

Manuscripts, Italian

property records

inventories

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Medici, House of

Sixteenth century

Property

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944285313503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3xc6f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania