University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1551

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DS ID:

DS1410

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1551

Title:

Ledger of Gondi accounts.

Author:

Gondi, Alfonso

Alfonso Gondi WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

1575.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 46 leaves : paper ; 296 x 202 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 46; [i], 1-44, [45], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f.4-5 and f.30-45 are blank).
Layout: Written in 2 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column on the left with the description of the transaction, and the smaller one on the right with its amount. Sometimes long lines are also used.
Origin: Written in Florence, in 1575 (f. 1r).
Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing an oval, a triangle, and a very thin cross.
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

ledgers (account books)

accounts

Manuscripts, Italian

Construction industry

Salviati, Averardo

Accounting

Ricciardi, Taddeo

Italy--Florence

Uguccioni, Benedetto

Sixteenth century

History

Gondi, Alfonso

Taxation

Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1541-1587

Bassini, Antonio

Salviati, Antonio, 1816-1890

Italy

Gondi family

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9945394023503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3g72h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania