University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1540

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DS ID:

DS1405

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1540

Title:

Alphabetical index to Medici (?) account book.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1539-1540.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 18 leaves : paper ; 333 x 226 mm bound to 330 x 211 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
For a ledger of accounts (dated 1538-1539), probably similar to the one for which this index was written, containing entries for many of the individuals mentioned in the present index, and written in an almost identical hand, see Ms. Codex 1496, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 18; [1-18]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1539 (f. 1r) and 1540 (f. 16r)
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Enclume, 5963 (Florence, 1514-29).
Binding: Early 14th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

indexes (reference sources)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9945002953503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3nr8h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania