University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1292

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1022

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1292

Title:

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors, memoranda and other records.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1566-1573.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 192 leaves : paper ; 330 x 225 mm bound to 344 x 231 mm +

Note:

Layout: Debtors and creditors 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 and debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the debt or credit in Arabic numerals. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts are listed on the right page of an opening, with the same...
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 25 on spine, the heading Debitori, creditori, ricordi e altro, no. 112 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine. Fragment from an incunable concerning Greek orators inside upper cover.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Arbalete 762 (Lucca, 1598), but without the fleur-de-lis.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Pagination: Paper, i (parchment), + 191 leaves, + i (parchment); versos numbered 1-123, [124], 125-138, [139-144], 145-188, [189-192], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-cxxiii, [cxxiiii], cxxv-cxxxviii, [cxxxviiii-cxliiii], cxlv-clxxxviii, [clxxxviiii-cxci], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper...
Origin: Written in Italy, between 1566 and 1573.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Medici, Luisa de'

Medici, House of

Accounting

Sixteenth century

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944329703503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34x54j7n/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania