University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1290

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DS ID:

DS1020

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1290

Title:

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1553-1572.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 64 leaves : paper ; 277 x 210 mm bound to 286 x 212 mm +

Note:

Origin: Written in Italy, between 1553 (f. 1v) and 1572 (f. 53v)
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Etoile, 6098 (Siena, 1495-1524).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 36 on spine; the heading Debiti, Crediti, Ricordi, no. 126 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Foliation: Paper, 64; [i], 1-63, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt in arabic numerals. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions...
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Medici, House of

Accounting

Sixteenth century

Italy

Medici, Bastiano de'

Medici, Carlo de'

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944311303503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3wh2df6p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania