University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1525

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1395

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1525

Title:

Notebook of Medici accounts.

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

1581.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 48 leaves : paper ; 141 x 99 mm bound to 151 x 102 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 48; 1-2, [3-48]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a cursive script by multiple hands.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a teardrop-shaped shield, a horse(?), and a rhomboidal decorative figure on top.
Binding: 15th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch); the heading Bravieri on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with remnants of leather tie.
Origin: Probably written in Florence in 1581 (f. 1r).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Archives

credit records

accounts

Manuscripts, Italian

Accounting

Farm management

Sixteenth century

Fanuchi, Quiricho

Medici, House of

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944963023503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rc10/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania