University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1300
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1031
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1300
- Title:
- Ledger of accounts.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1583-1592.
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 64 leaves : paper ; 331 x 233 mm bound to 347 x 235 mm
- Note:
- Foliation: Paper, 64; rectos numbered [i], i-xxxxiii, [xxxxiiii-lxiii], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-43, [44-64], upper left verso (leaves 44-64 are blank).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1583 (p. 1) and 1592 (p. 42).
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number or the year in which the transaction took place, the large central column with the transaction and a brief description of it, and the smaller one on the right with its amount in Arabic numerals. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a...
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleur-de-lis 7105 (Rome, 1565), but with rounder petals.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 98 on spine; the heading Giornale della poss[esio]ne di Valdenievole, and letter C with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Ms. codex.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944330023503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37v62/manifest
- Holding Institution:
