University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1550

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DS ID:

DS1409

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1550

Title:

Racccolti del entrata delle gabelle delle bestie di Firenze.

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

1575.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 50 leaves : paper ; 294 x 203 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, 50; [i], 1-10, [11-49]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 11-19 and f. 23-47 are blank).
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 4 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the first and third columns, smaller than the other 2, with a transaction number, and the second and fourth columns with the amount of the transaction.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Cloche 4096 (Pisa, 1560-1561).
Origin: Written in Florence, in 1575 (f. 1r).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

ledgers (account books)

accounts

Manuscripts, Italian

Accounting

Italy--Florence

Sixteenth century

Taxation

Tax collection

Italy

Gondi family

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9945333873503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37086/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania