University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1374

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1080

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1374

Title:

Ledger of Amadori debtors and creditors.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1537-1544.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 97 leaves : paper ; 209 x 139 mm bound to 214 x 141 mm +

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 97; [ii], 1-95; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1537 (f. 1v) and 1544 (f. 93r).
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or...
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing large grapes.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 197 on spine; the heading Deb[ito]ri e creditori, no. 1 and letter E on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.
Ms. codex.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Accounting

Sixteenth century

Italy

Amadori, Andrea

Amadori family

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944464553503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34j09z5f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania