Collection ID: 0030 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Questo e ellibro che tracta di marcantie et usanze di paesi

Authors

• Chiarini, Giorgio, approximately 1400- (http://viaf.org/viaf/72945459)

Other related names

• Bertini, Ludovico, former owner
• Di Francesco, Matteo di Lorenzo, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

(SPC) MSS BH 007 COCH
(Philadelphia, United States, Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, Harry C. Cochran History of Business Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• https://temple-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01TULI_ALMA21292308290003811&context=L&vid=TULI&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US

Publisher

Special Collections Research Center

Language

Italian

Origin

Place

Florence?, Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Italian compendium of practical information for Florentine merchants, including rules of exchange and a method for finding out what day of the week a given month begins in a given year. It is a humanistic manuscript on parchment. The work in this manuscript was published in Florence in December 1481; the colophon of the manuscript is dated July 1481. The body of the text follows closely the version in Paciola's later Summa de arithmetica, published in 1494. Most of the chapter numbers in the chapter headings of the manuscript, left blank by the scribe, were filled in by a later reader. The manuscript contains 195 chapters whereas the printed versions contain only 194 chapters.

Extent

100; 161 x 110 mm bound to 170 x 125 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (8), 2-8 (10), 9 (6), 10-11 (8)

Signatures

Modern signatures in pencil, lower center last verso, 1-11

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Original vertical catchwords in ink, lower right last verso, quires 2-9

Binding

Leather, blind-tooled and -stamped, with two clasps; Costumi, Cambi, Moneta, Pesi, written on spine in ink; Phillips label 6994

Layout

Single column of twenty-two lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines in faint red; written area: 100 x 60 mm

Decoration

Six-line illuminated initial and damaged coat of arms surrounded by a laurel wreath and floral extensions on first page of text (fol. 9r); two-line and four-line red and blue initials throughout; rubrication in red

Script

Humanistic

Scribe: Ludovico Bertini

Colophon

Finito libro isto referamus gratia Christo, die mensis Julii, MCCCCLXXXI, per me S[er?] Ludovicho Bertini

Provenance

• Written by Ludovico Bertini, Florence, 1481 (colophon, fol. 100r); formerly owned by Matteo di Lorenzo di Francesco, Scarperia, 1591 (ownership note, fol. 100r); formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Phillipps mss. No. 6994; purchased by Temple University from Wm. H. Robinson, 1951 (dealer's label inside front cover; Catalogue 81 (1950) Item 115)
   

Subjects topical

• Italy -- Commerce

Genres

• Codices

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Humanistic
• Mathematics
• Illumination
• Illustration

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 9r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 9r — Illuminated coat of arms (damaged)