University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1299
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1029
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1299
- Title:
- Ledger of Medici accounts.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1581-1583.
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 192 leaves : paper ; 329 x 232 mm bound to 343 x 235 mm +
- Note:
- Origin: Written in Italy between 1581 (p. 1) and 1583 (p. 93).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Monts 11938 (Lucca, 1582), but with a tree instead of the letter F.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
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.
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.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944329983503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3j38kj83/manifest
- Holding Institution:
