University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1355

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1068

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1355

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1594-1637.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 190 leaves : paper ; 247 x 180 mm bound to 261 x 183 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1594 (f. 1v) and 1637 (f. 82r).
Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 190; [1-190]; modern foliation in pencil, irregular contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in long lines. Sometimes itemized accounts of a single transaction are also present.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 100 on spine, heading Libro di possessioni, and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Ms. codex.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

Codices

accounts

Manuscripts, European

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Farm life

Accounting

Medici, House of

Farm management

Seventeenth century

Sixteenth century

Italy

History

Rural conditions

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944440533503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p33x83k5j/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania