University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1446

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1359

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1446

Title:

Medici contracts

Contracts

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1552-1569.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with some Italian passages

Latin WIKIDATA

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 50 leaves : paper ; 280 x 210 (240 x 165) mm bound to 290 x 235 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 50; 1-316 42; [i], 1-48, [49]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 20-27 long lines.
Script: Written in various italic cursive hands.
Decoration: Face within initial C in ink (f. i recto); ink drawing of a kind of pillar topped with a crescent moon (f. 8v).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Etoile 6098 (Siena, 1550-1555), f. 32-45; five-pointed crown with a floral shape beneath (f. 48).
Binding: Contemporary vellum, no. 126 on spine; the heading Libro di contracti, no. 9 on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), from 1552 (f. 1r) to 1569 (f. 49r).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.

Keyword:

Archives

Manuscripts, Renaissance

notarial documents

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Italy--Florence

Medici, Camillo de'

Inheritance and succession

Real property

Italy

Sixteenth century

Church property

Economic conditions

Medici, House of

Detti, Giovanni Baptista

Medici, Carlo Bernardo Alamanni de'

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9944647153503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gc04/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania