University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1365

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1072

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1365

Title:

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors and memoranda.

Author:

Medici, Francesca de'

Francesca de' Medici WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1534-1562.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 112 leaves : paper ; 164 x 111 mm bound to 170 x 113 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1534 (p.2) and 1562 (p.162)
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 26 on spine; the heading Debitori e creditori on upper cover; lower cover with remnants of leather ties wraps around upper cover with leather strap; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Pagination: Paper, 112 leaves; versos numbered 2-41, [42-45], 46-65, [66-112, i], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered 1-96, [97-112] upper right recto (leaves 103-112 blank).
Script: Written in a cursive script by multiple hands, including that of Francesca di Bivigliano de' Medici.
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

Textile industry

Sixteenth century

Italy

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944450133503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3tt4fv19/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania