University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1349

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DS ID:

DS1063

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1349

Title:

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1557-1572.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 62 leaves : paper ; 331 x 112 mm bound to 333 x 116 mm +

Note:

Ms. codex.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 62; [1], 2, 2-29, 29-41, [42-60]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 43-60 are blank but ruled).
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Sometimes long lines are also used.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1557 (f. 1v) and 1572 (f. 33r).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Ancre 492 (Lucca, 1522).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 165 on spine.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Farm life

Medici, House of

Accounting

Sixteenth century

Italy

History

Rural conditions

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944430863503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3m24s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania