University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1496
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1376
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1496
- Title:
- Ledger of Medici accounts and debtors and creditors.
- Place:
- Florence
- Date:
- 1538-1539.
- Language:
- Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 96 leaves : paper ; 336 x 227 mm bound to 350 x 240 mm
- Note:
- Very similar to Ms. Codex 1341, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
For an alphabetical index to a ledger of accounts, dated 1539-1540, containing entries for many of the individuals mentioned in the present index, and written in a similar hand, see Ms. Codex 1540, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. codex.
Pagination: Paper, 96; versos numbered 1-89, [90-96], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-lxxxviiii, [lxxxx-lxxxxv], upper right recto (leaves after p.89 are blank but ruled). Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.
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 appearing as debtors or creditors on...
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Echelle 5922 (Siena, 1495-1524).
Binding: Modern cloth.
Origin: Written in Florence between 1538 (f. 1v) and 1539 (f. 19r).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944869723503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p31z41t8h/manifest
- Holding Institution:
