University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1500

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DS ID:

DS1380

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1500

Title:

Ledger of Detti accounts and memoranda.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1557-1558.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 150 leaves : paper ; 333 x 223 mm bound to 350 x 235 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 150; 1-25, [26-76], 76-113, [114-149], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 or 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large central column with the a brief description of the transaction, including the name of the counterparts involved, and the smaller one on the right with the amount received or disbursed. Memoranda written in long lines.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1557 (f. 1r) and 1558 (f. 109r).
Decoration: Detti signet in ink (f. 1r).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Armoires Lion 1883 (Florence, 1529), but with the lion's snout more defined.
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

Early works

Accounting

Wool industry

Italy

Woolen and worsted manufacture

Textile industry

History

Dyes and dyeing

Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy)

Sixteenth century

Detti, Giovanbattista

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944875913503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3nk36570/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania