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Title

Property inventory of Bivigliano de' Medici

Authors

• Medici, Bivigliano de'

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1276
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944285313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/288417909
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4428531

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1534-1544

Place

Florence

Summary

Inventory of property of Bivigliano de' Medici, including real estate (villas, farms, castles and family churches or chapels in Florence and Valdelsa), real property (land and woods) and personal property (cattle and sheep) for the years 1534-44. Often includes a detailed description of the property and instructions for managing it.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Chapeau, 3370 (Florence, 1465-67) but with a more triangular shape below the hat.

Extent

64 leaves : 266 x 213 mm. bound to 271 x 215 mm

Foliation

Paper, 64; 1-64; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right recto (leaves after f.42 are blank but ruled).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 9 on spine; no. 52 on upper cover; L[ybro] di beni [?] e altre cose importante di Bivigliano d'Alamanno de' Medici, addi p[rimo] di gennaio on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover; remnants of leather ties, decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Written in 2 or 3 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead; the large column in the center contains a detailed description of the property and sometimes a brief history of it; the smaller columns on the left and on the right sometimes contain arabic numbers or short notes.

Decoration

Manicule (f.39r).

Script

Written in a cursive script, perhaps by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Property--Italy--16th century

Genres

• Codices
• Inventories
• Property records
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Accounts
• Financial records
• Paper

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 39r — Manicule, f. 39r