University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1332

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1049

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1332

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1537-1538.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 96 leaves : paper ; mm 332 x 114 bound to 336 x 116 mm

Note:

Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Sometimes long lines are also used.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 96; [1], 2-42, [43-96]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 43-96 are blank but ruled).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Ancre 492 (Lucca, 1522).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 164 on spine; the heading Richordi no. 9 on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1537 (f. 1v) and 1538 (f. 9r).
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

Textile industry

Sixteenth century

Italy

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944404953503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37w1h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania