University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1386

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1089

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1386

Title:

Ledger of Amadori debtors and creditors.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1585-1593.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 140 leaves : paper ; 330 x 137 mm bound to 339 x 139 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, i (paper) + 140 + i (paper); 1-140, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1585 (f. 1v) and 1593 (f. 136v).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
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, Armoires Leon 1884 (Lucca, 1569-1586).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 184 on spine; the heading Debitori e creditori and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (New York), 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Accounting

Sixteenth century

Amadori, Niccolo

Italy

Amadori family

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944484583503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3r785q4p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania