University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1366

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1073

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1366

Title:

Notebook of Medici accounts.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1538-1541.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 192 leaves : paper ; 167 x 113 mm bound to 170 x 115 mm

Note:

Origin: Written in Italy between 1538 (f. 1v) and 1541 (f. 111r).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Ancre 489 (Florence, 1519).
Decoration: Manicule (f. 4v).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 9 on spine; the heading Giornale and letter B on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Foliation: Paper, 192; rectos numbered [1], 2-192, contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper right verso; versos numbered 1-27, [28-192], contemporary numeration in ink, modern numeration in pencil, upper left recto. The versos of f. 1-27 have the same number as on the recto, upper left verso.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Farm life

De' Medici, Luigi, principe di Ottaviano, 1759-1830

Medici, House of

Accounting

Farm management

Sixteenth century

Italy

History

Medici, Bivigliano de'

Rural conditions

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944450113503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3fx7411k/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania