University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1303
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1034
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1303
- Title:
- Ledger of Medici accounts.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1585-1614.
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 96 leaves : paper ; 344 x 236 mm bound to 358 x 238 mm
- Note:
- 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...
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, i (paper) + 96 leaves + i (paper); rectos numbered [i], 2, iii, [iiii], 5-19, xx-xxiii, [xxiiii-lxxii], lxxiii-lxxv, 76-82, [lxxxiii-xcvi], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered [1], 2-23, [24-72], 73-82, [83-96], upper left verso (leaves 24-72 and 83-96 are blank). In most cases, each opening has a matched arabic...
Ms. codex.
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. 53 on spine; the heading Ent[rat]a e uscita del libro, no. 34, signet VA 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 1585 (p. 1) and 1614 (p. 81).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (New York), 1961. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944330133503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3d21rk5x/manifest
- Holding Institution:
