University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1368

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1074

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1368

Title:

Notebook of Medici accounts.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1542-1547.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 222 leaves : paper ; 161 x 107 mm bound to 174 x 111 mm +

Note:

Script: Written a in cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 222; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1542 (f. 1v) and 1547 (f. 196v).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 97 on spine; the heading Q[uaderno] settimo, no. 50 and letter H with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Agneau pascal 48 (Florence, 1498); and Ancre 489 (Florence, 1519).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

recipes

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Medici, House of

Accounting

Farm management

Sixteenth century

Italy

Medici, Bivigliano de'

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944456753503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gt5fk4f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania