University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1422

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1345

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1422

Title:

Notebook of Ridolfi accounts.

Author:

Ridolfi, Tommaso

Tommaso Ridolfi WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1522-1549.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 95 leaves : paper ; 289 x 213 mm bound to 292 x 215 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1522 (f.1v) and 1549 (f.40v).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 95; 1-41, [42-95]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 42-64, 73-88 and 93-95 are blank).
Script: Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands, including that of Tommaso Ridolfi.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 129 on spine; the heading Giornale, no. 190 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather ties. Decorative leatherwork on spine.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Ancre 444 (Florence, 1529), but with a larger crown and a thicker ring.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

accounts

ledgers (account books)

codices (bound manuscripts)

credit records

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Medici, Alamanno de'

Accounting

Ambassadors

Medici, House of

Sixteenth century

Italy--Florence

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944530203503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3d50fz5s/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania