University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1424

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DS ID:

DS1347

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1424

Title:

Notebook of Seccrani debtors and creditors.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1543-1556.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 46 leaves : paper ; 288 x 105 mm bound to 290 x 107 mm +

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1543 (f. 1v) and 1556 (inside lower cover).
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 46; [1], 2-42, [43-46], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 3 columns with occasional vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small one on the right with the amount of the transaction. Long lines are also used.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 165 on spine.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

accounts

ledgers (account books)

codices (bound manuscripts)

credit records

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Accounting

Seccrani, Parrino

Sixteenth century

Seccrani, Marco

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944535333503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3r08v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania