University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1392

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1092

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1392

Title:

Ledger of Gondi accounts.

Author:

Gondi, Simone

Simone Gondi WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1533-1535.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 42 leaves : paper ; 286 x 210 mm bound to 288 x 220 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 42; 1-4, 8-39, 45-50; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (f. 5-7, 40-44 missing, f. 4, 11-15 and 39-50 blank but ruled).
Origin: Written in Italy between 1533 (f. 1v) and 1535 (f. 10r).
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 debt and credit. Itemized accounts of single transactions or long lines are also used.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Very close match to Briquet, Croix Greque 5542.
Binding: Contemporary, 14th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch); no. 283 in upper left-hand corner; no. 127 on lower cover.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Gondi family

Accounting

Sixteenth century

Gondi, Federico

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944494843503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p30g5q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania