University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1326

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1043

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1326

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts.

Author:

Di Nanni, Francesco

Francesco di Domenico di Nanni WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1535-1544.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 73 leaves : paper ; 281 x 96 mm bound to 291 x 109 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 73; 14-86, contemporary foliation, upper right recto; 1-28, [29-73], near-contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (references in this record refer to the second foliation scheme).
Origin: Written in Italy between 1535 (f. 1r) and 1544 (f. 73r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals appearing as debtors or creditors on...
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands, including the one of Francesco di Domenico di Nanni.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Croix Grecque 5544 (Florence 1496-1498).
Binding: Modern vellum.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Medici, House of

Accounting

Sixteenth century

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944396083503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p38k74x2q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania