University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1343

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DS ID:

DS1058

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1343

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1543-1546.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 80 leaves : paper ; 330 x 116 mm bound to 335 x 127 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 80; [1], 2-51, [52-80], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1543 (f. 1v) and 1546 (f. 78r).
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 cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5926 (Siena, 1524).
Binding: Modern vellum; previous binding had no. 164 on contemporary slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).
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_9944421103503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3f76668r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania