University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1390

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DS ID:

DS1090

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1390

Title:

Ledger of Arrigucci debtors and creditors and memoranda.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1521-1524.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 182 leaves : paper ; 282 x 212 mm bound to 289 x 215 mm +

Note:

Decoration: Signet on f. 141r and f. 142v.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1521 (f. 1r) and 1524 (f. 66v).
Ms. codex.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Ancre 442, (Florence, 1510).
Foliation: Paper, i (parchment) + 182 + i (parchment); [i], 1-181; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (leaves 69-129, 145-169 and 173-181 are blank).
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small one on the right with the amount of the transaction. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one...
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 218.2 on spine; the heading Quaderno e ricordanze and letter G with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Accounting

Sixteenth century

Italy

Arrigucci, Donato

Arrigucci family

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944484553503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3804xj86/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania