University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1451

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1361

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1451

Title:

Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors and memoranda.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1566-1568.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 176 leaves : paper ; 334 x 230 mm bound to 351 x 232 mm +

Note:

Ms. codex.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1566 (p. 1) and 1568 (p. 106).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 14 on spine; the heading Debitori, creditori, ricordi e altro, no. 137 and letter A with decorative penwork on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather strap; decorative leatherwork on spine. Fragment from an incunable containing a passage of Quintilian's Institutio oratoria inside upper cover.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Arbalete 762 (Lucca, 1598), but without the fleur-de-lis.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Layout: Debtors and creditors 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 and debt, and the smaller one on the right with the amount of the debt or credit. Usually credits are listed on the left page and debts are listed on the right page of an opening, with the same individuals...
Pagination: Paper, 176; versos numbered 1-113, [114-124], 125-130, [131-144], 145-166, [167-176], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-cxiii, [cxiiii-cxxiii], cxxv-cxxx, [cxxxi-cxxxxiiii], cxxxxv-cvxvi, [clxvii-clxxv], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto (pages 114-124, 131-144 and...
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

accounts

ledgers (account books)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Accounting

Farm management

Italy

History

Farm life

Medici, House of

Medici, Fabrizio de'

Sixteenth century

Medici, Luisa de'

Medici, Nicolo de'

Falente, Rinaldo di

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944677123503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p39p2w729/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania