Harvard University, MS Riant 45

Metadata

DS ID:

DS10958

Shelfmark:

MS Riant 45

Title:

Notizie di mercatura /; scritte da Ippolito Libri

Author:

Libri, Ippolito

Ippolito Libri WIKIDATA

Date:

1538-1549.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 53 leaves, bound ; 22 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Riant, comte 1836-1888

Paul Riant WIKIDATA

Note:

Autograph manuscript, written at Naples between 1538 and 23 May 1549.
Title from cover.
Incipit: Questo libro è di me Hipolito de libri nel qual saranno notate varie cose ma tute appartenenti a negotii di mercantie come li pregi dele monete di ciaschuno luoco il modo di cambiare di tutte le parte e per doue si cambia et simile altre cose.
Bound in original vellum wrapper.
In a tray case, 24 cm.
Belonged to Paul Edouard Didier, comte de Riant.
Gift of J. Randolph Coolidge and Archibald Cary Coolidge, 1899.

Keyword:

Vellum bindings

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Merchants

Foreign exchange rates

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097912270203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University