Wellesley College, P703

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DS ID:

DS16419

Shelfmark:

P703

Title:

Libro del Monte Comune Fiorentino

Ledger

Place:

Florence, Italy

Florence TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1397 and 1400

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 26 leaves ; 296 x 223 (approximately 260 x 185) mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Folio paper, with watermarks: a griffon, a circumscribed mountain similar to Piccard XVI.i.1569 (Florence, 1396) and a unicorn head similar to Piccard X.1052 (Florence, 1398). 110, 216 (incomplete). Original ink foliation numbers the first quire 102-110, and the second quire 214-229.
Layout: 1 column, approx. 40 lines.
Script: Written in an Italian notary hand in brown ink.
Origin: A Florentine state ledger, written in Florence between 1397 and 1400. One entry mentions painter Niccolo di Piero Gerini, showing that he was living in the San Giovanni quarter of Florence in the year 1400.
Secundo folio: [blank
Owned by George A. Plimpton.

Keyword:

Account books

account books

Manuscripts

Wellesley College Library

Debts, Public

Italy--Florence

Fourteenth century

Early works

Politics and government

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626078

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/30484/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College