University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1297

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1027

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1297

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts.

Ledger

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1575-1584.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 192 leaves : paper ; 333 x 231 mm bound to 339 x 238 mm +

Note:

Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the transaction and a brief description of it, and the smaller one on the right with its amount in arabic numerals. In the occurrence of both a debt and a credit with a specific counterpart, credits are usually listed on the left page and debts 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. 17 on spine; the heading R[icordi] e con[ti] d[ei] c[o]n[tratti]i co'lavoratori [e] en[trata] e usc[it]a di grano vino e altro, no. 139 and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Couronne 4844 (Lucca, 1580); Armoires Lion 1883 (Florence, 1529), but with the lion's snout more defined.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Pagination: Paper, i (paper) + 192 leaves + i (paper); versos numbered 1-84, [85], 86-170, [171-175], 176, [177-192], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-lxxxiiii, [lxxxv], lxxxvi-clxx, [clxxi-clxxv], clxxvi, [clxxvii-clxxxxi], upper right recto (leaves 85,171-175 and 177-192 are blank). Each opening has a matched arabic numeral...
Origin: Written in Italy between 1575 (p.1) and 1584 (p.176).
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

Medici, Niccolo de'

Sixteenth century

Italy

Medici, Fabrizio de'

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944329923503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p30863769/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania