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Title

Account book and record of transactions

Authors

• Alamanno, di Bernardo di Alamanni de Medici

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 102
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915804433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903153
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580443

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1468-1488

Place

Florence?

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.
   
• 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.
   

Watermark

similar to Piccard XIV. ii. 536, but Piccard is much too early (Bologna, 1341).

Extent

49 leaves : 313 x 240 mm. bound to 313 x 231 mm

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.

Support

Paper

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.

Script

Written in Gothic cursive and humanistic cursive scripts by various hands.

Provenance

• Acquired, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--Italy--15th century

Genres

• Codices
• Account books
• Inventories
• Ledgers (account books)
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Paper
• Financial records

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside back cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside back cover