Details

Subjects:

Brescia (Italy) -- History -- 15th century -- Economic aspects.
Brescia (Italy) -- History -- 16th century -- Economic aspects.

Form/Genre:

Accounts.
Credit records.
Documents (object genre)
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Accounts of an agricultural estate (of Jacobus Sanonus?). Includes personal accounts of various debtors, with an index of names.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from dealer's description (Zacour-Hirsch).
Inscription on front cover: Jesus Maria 1496.
Heading f. [i]r: Nota de la posessione de viginaro / se ritrova fin adi primo aprile 1496 / tereno vidato et campivo pertiche 864 / prati pertiche 687.
Foliation: Paper, 142; [i], 1-23, [24-141]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary vellum. Cover is a portion of a manuscript document on vellum, apparently written in Latin.
Origin: Written in Brescia, from 1476 to 1503 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Cover worn in places. Hole in front cover. Some stains and smudges.
Five small slips of paper, contemporary with the manuscript and containing figures, etc., have been laid into the manuscript. They are located between f. 88-89, 99-100, 103-104, 115-116, and 128-129.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan), 1960.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 116 (Ms. Italian 119).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 361

OCLC:

155964488