University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1301
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1032
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1301
- Title:
- Ledger of Medici accounts.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1583-1592.
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 80 leaves : paper ; 332 x 231 mm bound to 338 x 235 mm +
- Note:
- Origin: Written in Italy between 1583 (p. 1) and 1592 (p. 74).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Aigle 207 (Siena, 1594).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 150 on spine; the heading Giornale, and letter C 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) + 80 + i (paper); rectos numbered i-viii, 9, x-xv, [xvi-xxiiii], xv-lxxv, [lxxvi-lxxx], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-14, [15-24], 25-75, [76-80], upper left verso (leaves 76-80 are blank).
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.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944330053503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3db7vq7z/manifest
- Holding Institution:
