University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1499

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1378

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1499

Title:

Ledger of Gondi accounts and debtors and creditors.

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

1506-1537.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 88 leaves : paper ; 401 x 283 mm bound to 415 x 290 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, 88; versos numbered 1-83, [84-88], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], i-lxxxiii, [lxxxiiii-lxxxvii], upper right recto (leaves after p.83 are blank). Each opening has a matched Arabic numeral on the left and a Roman numeral on the right.
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the smaller column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with a brief description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. In certain cases the large central column contains itemized accounts of a transaction within one entry.
Origin: Written in Florence between 1506 (f.1r) and 1537 (f.82v).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Chapeau 3373 (Florence, 1476).
Binding: Modern cloth.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Keyword:

accounts

ledgers (account books)

codices (bound manuscripts)

credit records

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Gondi, Federigo

Early works

Accounting

Gondi, Alfonso

Mints

Gold

Sixteenth century

Gondi family

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944875803503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3mw28g1c/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania