University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1497

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1377

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1497

Title:

Ledger of Medici accounts and debtors and creditors.

Ledger

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

1537-1538.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 96 leaves : paper ; 333 x 225 mm bound to 347 x 238 mm

Note:

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, [xc-xcv], 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.
Origin: Written in Florence between 1537 (f. 1v) and 1538 (f. 16r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
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, Ancre 492 (Lucca, 1522).
Binding: Modern cloth.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Keyword:

accounts

ledgers (account books)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Archives

credit records

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Accounting

Italy

Sixteenth century

Medici, House of

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944875733503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3jm23h2v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania