Harvard University, MS Ital 61

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10936

Shelfmark:

MS Ital 61

Title:

Merchant's book; of calendars, customs and rates of exchange

Date:

1445.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (88 leaves) ; 23 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Shirley, Evelyn Philip, 1812-1882

Evelyn Philip Shirley WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in a rapid and irregular semihybrida currens with red initials at the beginning of sections; alphabetical table (ff. 17-19). Calendar years, 1445 to 1532, are listed on f. 88v.
Later 16th- or 17th-cent. coat of arms in color appears on f. 88r.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled brown morocco.
In a tray case, 24 cm.
Gift of Imrie de Vegh, 1950.
Bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley (no. 170) and his Ettington Manuscript Library (no. 7).

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Italy

Merchants

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098601250203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:12047390

Holding Institution:

Harvard University