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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1042

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1324

Title:

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors

Ledger

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1533-1538.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 130 leaves : paper ; 220 x 154 mm bound to 223 x 156 mm +

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 130 + i (paper); most folios have the same number on both recto and verso; rectos numbered 1-10, xi-xii, 13, [14-49, i], 50-65, 69-76, [77], 78-82, [83], 84, [85], 86-90, [91], 92-94, [95-132], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper right recto; versos numbered 1-10, xi-xii, 13, [14-50], 51-64, 68-94, [95-132], contemporary numeration...
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the number of the transaction, the large central column with a brief description of it, including the name of the counterparts, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the debt or credit. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within...
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleche 6305 (Florence, 1524-25).
Decoration: Pointing hand (f.87r).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 22 on spine; the heading Entrata e uscita, letter A 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 1533 (f. 2r) and 1538 (f. 92v).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

Archives

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

accounts

ledgers (account books)

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

Italy

Sixteenth century

Medici, House of

Accounting

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

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9944390963503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania