University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1351

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DS ID:

DS1064

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1351

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1559-1579.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 192 leaves : paper ; 351 x 136 mm bound to 354 x 140 mm +

Note:

Origin: Written in Italy between 1559 (f. 1v) and 1579 (f. 141v).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Homme 7573 ( Milan, 1590), but with a more triangular body.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Foliation: Paper, i (parchment) + 192 + i (parchment); 1-192; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (leaves 180-192 are blank).
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number or the year in which the transaction took place, the large central column with the transaction and a brief description of it, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within...
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Ms. codex.
Sold by 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

Farm management

Sixteenth century

Italy

Medici, Fabrizio de'

History

Rural conditions

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944430543503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3bn9x53x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania