University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1427

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DS ID:

DS1349

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1427

Title:

Ledger of Detti debtors and creditors.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1553-1558.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 160 leaves : paper ; 280 x 101 mm bound to 287 x 117 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1553 (f. 1v) and 1558 (f. 95v).
Foliation: Paper, 160; [1], 2-74, 78-99, [100-163]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f.100-163 are blank).
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the debtor or creditor and a brief description of the credit or debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the credit or debt. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals or institutions appearing as debtors or...
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Binding: Modern vellum; previous binding had no. 165 on contemporary slip attached to spine (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

accounts

ledgers (account books)

codices (bound manuscripts)

credit records

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Early works

Accounting

Wool industry

Detti, Giammaria

Woolen and worsted manufacture

Textile industry

History

Italy

Dyes and dyeing

Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy)

Sixteenth century

Detti, Giovanbattista

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944535443503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3t43j41v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania