University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1391

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1091

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1391

Title:

Ledger of Arrigucci debtors and creditors and memoranda.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1528-1545.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 144 leaves : paper ; 287 x 210 mm bound to 300 x 215 mm +

Note:

Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Ancre 489 (Florence, 1519).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 207 on spine; the heading Libro del lavoreria della ereditá d'Andrea di Filippo Arrigucci; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Foliation: Paper, 144; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (f. 62-99 and 123-144 blank but ruled).
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.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1528 (f. 1v) and 1545 (f. 60v).
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, Andrea

Arrigucci family

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944494803503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3513tx21/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania