University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1528

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1396

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1528

Title:

Scartafaccio di Bartolomeo Corsini di fiera di Piacenza.

Place:

Piacenza

Piacenza TGN

Date:

1599.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 44 leaves : paper ; 290 x 202 mm bound to 302 x 205 mm

Note:

Pagination: Paper, 44; versos numbered [1], 2-17, [18-44], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper left verso; rectos numbered [i], [i], ii-iii, [iv-ix], x-xvii, [xviii-xliii], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper right recto. Each opening has a matched arabic numeral on the left and a roman numeral on the right.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title from title page (f. i recto)
Origin: Written in Piacenza in 1599 (f. i recto).
Layout: Written in 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the small column on the left with the transaction number, the large central column with the name of the counterpart and a brief description of the transaction, and the small one on the right with the amount of the transaction.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a circle, a fleur-de-lis and a mountain.
Binding: Contemporary vellum; no. 259 and faded, unreadable text on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with leather tie.
Ms. codex.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

ledgers (account books)

accounts

Manuscripts, Italian

Seventeenth century

Accounting

Finance

Speculation

Early works

Corsini, Bartolomeo

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944963463503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3sx64899/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania