University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1431

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DS ID:

DS1353

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1431

Title:

Notebook of Giomi debtors and creditors.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1568-1581.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 96 leaves : paper ; 203 x 138 mm bound to 208 x 141 mm +

Note:

Ms. codex.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 96; [1-96], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation partial and irregular.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Tete humaine 15614 (Lucca, 1445), but with curlier hair and a pointier nose.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1568 (f. 1v) and 1581 (f. 91v).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 266 on spine; the heading Cosimo Giomi 1568-1581 on upper cover (part of upper cover missing); lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather ties.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

accounts

ledgers (account books)

codices (bound manuscripts)

credit records

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Early works

Accounting

Italy

Textile industry

Sixteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944549163503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p39882p1v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania