University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1342

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DS ID:

DS1057

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1342

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1543-1544.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 96 leaves : paper ; 334 x 112 mm bound to 349 x 114 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 96; [1], 2-6, vii, 8-54, [55-96], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 55-96 are blank but ruled).
Origin: Written in Italy, between 1543 (f. 1v) and 1544 (f. 53r).
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 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.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Enclume, 5963 (Florence, 1514-29).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 164 on spine; the heading Richordi no. 20 and no. 281 on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
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_9944417673503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3td9nb9p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania