University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1322

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DS ID:

DS1040

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1322

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts.

Author:

De' Medici, Luigi, principe di Ottaviano, 1759-1830

Luigi de' Medici WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1495-1544.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 100 leaves : paper ; 285 x 105 mm bound to 290 x 112 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 100; 1-100; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1495 (f.1r) and 1544 (p.17v).
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands, including those of Luigi and Alamanno de' Medici.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Chapeau 3373 (Florence, 1476).
Decoration: Manicule (f.12r).
Binding: Modern vellum. Previous binding had no. 165 on slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Ledgers (account books)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Medici, House of

Accounting

Sixteenth century

Fifteenth century

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944368293503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3m81q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania