University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1446

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DS ID:

DS1359

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1446

Title:

Medici contracts.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1552-1569.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with some Italian passages

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 50 leaves : paper ; 280 x 210 (240 x 165) mm bound to 290 x 235 mm

Note:

Collation: Paper, 50; 1-3¹⁶ 4²; [i], 1-48, [49]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), from 1552 (f. 1r) to 1569 (f. 49r).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 126 on spine; the heading Libro di contracti, no. 9 on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 20-27 long lines.
Script: Written in various italic cursive hands.
Decoration: Face within initial C in ink (f. i recto); ink drawing of a kind of pillar topped with a crescent moon (f. 8v).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Etoile 6098 (Siena, 1550-1555), f. 32-45; five-pointed crown with a floral shape beneath (f. 48).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Archives

notarial documents

Medici, Camillo de'

Inheritance and succession

Italy

Sixteenth century

Italy--Florence

Medici, Carlo Bernardo Alamanni de'

Church property

Medici, House of

Economic conditions

Detti, Giovanni Baptista

Real property

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944647153503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gc04/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania