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[Account book and record of transactions].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 102
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Alamanno, di Bernardo di Alamanni de Medici.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Medici, House of--Archives.
- Medici, House of.
- Accounting--Italy--15th century.
- Accounting.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- account books
- inventories
- ledgers (account books)
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Archives.
- Penn Provenance:
- Acquired, 1959.
- Physical Description:
- 49 leaves : paper ; 313 x 240 mm bound to 313 x 231 mm
- Other Title:
- Ricordi.
- Place of Publication:
- [Florence?], 1468-1488.
- Language Note:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- Contains an account ledger covering 1470-1471 (f. 1r-11v); "Inventario di chose" (inventory of possessions; f 31r-v); and miscellaneous records, 1468-1488 (with several years left out; f. 33r-55v). Folios 11v-30v and 32r-v are blank. Also includes seven loose items laid into the manuscript: letters and receipts, dating from 1472-1492.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- 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.
- 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. Link to collation model at end of record.
- 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.
- Origin: Written in Florence[?] between 1468 and 1488.
- 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.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 168 (Ms. Lea 99).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 102
- OCLC:
- 155962405
- Online:
- Collation model
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