University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1568

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1415

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1568

Title:

Susanna family ledger.

Place:

Friuli

Friuli TGN

Date:

1597-1600.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, with a few words in Friulian (northeastern Italian) dialect

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 173 leaves : paper ; 211 x 151 mm bound to 214 x 157 mm +

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Friuli, at the Italian-Slovenian border, between 1597 (f.1r) and 1600 (f.113v).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 173; 1-85, [i], 86-92, 94-141, 144-164, 166-173, 182-183, [184], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f.142-143, 165, 174-181 severed).
Script: Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Arbalète 770 (Pizzighettone, Milan, 1600).
Binding: Contemporary limp sheep(?), geometric pattern ruled in blind and 1597 written on upper cover; decorative leatherwork and blind ruling on spine.
Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Mundesley, England), cat. 8 (2010), no. 106.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

credit records

ledgers (account books)

accounts

Manuscripts, Italian

Accounting

Farm management

Sixteenth century

Real property

History

Farm life

Italy--Friuli

Rural conditions

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948185733503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3n87323w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania