University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1299

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1029

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1299

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts

Ledger

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1581-1583.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 192 leaves : paper ; 329 x 232 mm bound to 343 x 235 mm +

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, i (paper) + 192 + i (paper); versos numbered i-158, [159-192], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-cxxxxviii, [cxxxxviiii], cl-clviii, [clviiii-cxci], upper right recto (leaves 159-192 are blank but ruled). Each opening has a matched Arabic numeral on the left and a Roman numeral on the right.
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...
Script: Written in a cursive script perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Monts 11938 (Lucca, 1582), but with a tree instead of the letter F.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 96 on spine; the heading L[ib]ro di possesione, no. 10 and letter B with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1581 (p. 1) and 1583 (p. 93).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

Archives

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

ledgers (account books)

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

Italy

Sixteenth century

Medici, House of

Accounting

Medici, Andrea de'

Medici, Vincenzo de'

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9944329983503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania