University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 102
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS870
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 102
- Title:
- Account book and record of transactions.
- Alamanno, di Bernardo di Alamanni de Medici
- Place:
- Florence
- Date:
- 1468-1488.
- Language:
- Italian
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 49 leaves : paper ; 313 x 240 mm bound to 313 x 231 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Note on f. 1r gives the title Ricordi, along with Alamanno's name and the dates 1470-1488. This note appears to be in a later hand.
Origin: Written in Florence[?] between 1468 and 1488.
Ms. codex.
Collation: Paper, 49; 1¹⁶[-4](-1), 2¹⁶[-2], 3¹⁴, 4¹⁰; 1-6, 11-13, 15-23, 26-55; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive and humanistic cursive scripts by various hands.
Watermarks: similar to Piccard XIV. ii. 536, but Piccard is much too early (Bologna, 1341).
Binding: Italian, late 15th-century vellum wrapper; "No 187" in ink on front. Writing on inside of vellum wrapper suggests that this might have been a document that was reused.
Vellum wrapper in poor condition; splitting, cracking and crumbling. Wrapper completely detached from book block. Binding very loose; all quires pulling loose. Some folios are splitting at the edges and show evidence of water damage.
Acquired, 1959. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915804433503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3tq5rj2t/manifest
- Holding Institution:
