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Title

Account book

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1209
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943226363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232626189
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4322636

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Provençal

Origin

Date

1492-1494

Place

Toulouse, France

Summary

An account book of an unidentified merchant who traded in wheat, rye, and wine. Prices of various transactions are recorded in the margins. Most of the entries are from the years 1492 and 1493. The merchant was also involved in the repair of mills in the areas of Labastide-Beauvoir, Montgiscard, Villefranche, Caraman, Haute-Garonne, and other areas southeast of Toulouse. This section contains the location name, followed by a table of personal names and prices next to them, possibly designating sums owed to the unknown merchant. The records of mill repairs appear at the end of the codex (f. 47r-53v). There are several blank pages in the middle (f. 10v-12v and f. 40v-46r) and at the end of the codex (f. 54r-59v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit: Comptes de la ma[-]rsandis... (f. 1r).
   

Watermark

Briquet, Tête de bœuf 14417.

Extent

59 leaves : 310 x 215 (265 x 160) mm. bound to 275 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, 59 leaves; [1-59]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary foliation in ink numbered 1-29 in upper right recto is added between f. 13 and f. 41; all references in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Disbound, but quires still sewn together; upper cover is a near-contemporary Latin document written on vellum and is stored with the manuscript; lower cover missing.

Layout

Written in 29-33 long lines.

Script

Written in a secretary script.

Provenance

• Purchased in 1968.
   

Subjects topical

• Merchants--France--Toulouse

Genres

• Codices
• Account books
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Provençal--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• French
• France
• Paper
• Accounts
• Financial records

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