University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1395

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1094

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1395

Title:

Ledger of Gondi accounts and memoranda.

Author:

Allegri, Bernardo

Bernardo Allegri WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1558-1560.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 128 leaves : paper ; 229 x 163 mm bound to 243 x 165 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1558 (f. 1v) and 1560 (f. 73r).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 1 on spine; the heading Libro di possessione, letter A with decorative penwork, letter B and no.1 on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Pagination: Paper, 127: versos numbered 1-106, [107-127], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-cvi, [cvii-cxi], cxii-cxxii, [cxxiii-cxxvii], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (pages 107-111 and 123-127 blank). Each opening has a matched Arabic numeral on the left and a Roman numeral on...
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Ancre 492 (Lucca, 1522).
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

ledgers (account books)

credit records

Manuscripts, Italian

accounts

inventories

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Farm life

Gondi family

Accounting

Farm management

Sixteenth century

Italy

Gondi, Antonio Francesco

History

Rural conditions

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944495213503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p36q1sh16/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania