University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1383

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1087

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1383

Title:

Ledger of Amadori accounts.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1556-1566.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 160 leaves : paper ; 203 x 138mm bound to 211 x 140 mm +

Note:

Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 160; [i], 1, i, 2-158, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (f.158 blank).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1556 (f. 1r) and 1566 (f. 147r).
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: Similar to Briquet, Tete humaine 15614 (Lucca, 1445), but with curlier hair and a pointier nose.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 181 on spine; the heading Quadernuccio 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

Amadori, Francesco

Italy

Amadori, Andrea

Amadori family

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944474373503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gb1xj2g/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania