(Q4666)

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Account book and record of transactions.
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Accounting--Italy--15th century
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Medici, House of--Archives
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Extent: 49 leaves : paper ; 313 x 240 mm bound to 313 x 231 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Note on f. 1r gives the title Ricordi, along with Alamanno's name and the dates 1470-1488. This note appears to be in a later hand.
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Origin: Written in Florence[?] between 1468 and 1488.
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Ms. codex.
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Collation: Paper, 49; 1¹⁶[-4](-1), 2¹⁶[-2], 3¹⁴, 4¹⁰; 1-6, 11-13, 15-23, 26-55; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
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Script: Written in Gothic cursive and humanistic cursive scripts by various hands.
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Watermarks: similar to Piccard XIV. ii. 536, but Piccard is much too early (Bologna, 1341).
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Binding: Italian, late 15th-century vellum wrapper; "No 187" in ink on front. Writing on inside of vellum wrapper suggests that this might have been a document that was reused.
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Vellum wrapper in poor condition; splitting, cracking and crumbling. Wrapper completely detached from book block. Binding very loose; all quires pulling loose. Some folios are splitting at the edges and show evidence of water damage.
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Acquired, 1959.
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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