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Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 674 - [Horae de Sancta Katherina]. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 674, Hours of St. Catherine, incomplete at the end, where prayers to St. Barbara, an Office of St. Barbara, and the Passion account from the Gospel of Matthew (partial) are added in a second hand. Written in Germany in the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). 19th-century description tipped onto front endleaf has date ca. 1390. Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874603503681?hld_id=22283686350003681Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 665 - Venetian Capitulary. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 665, statutes in 151 chapters of the Order of the Ship, founded in Naples in 1381 by King Carlo III 'di Durazzo'. Presumably copied sometime between the founding of the order on 1 December 1381 (date on f. 21 r) and the death of Carlo III in 1386. Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924874513503681?hld_id=22283691260003681Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 1280 - [Ledger of Medici debtors and creditors]. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 1280, ledger of debtors and creditors of the Medici family for the years 1537-1539. Often includes the nature of a given credit or debt and its amount, as well as listing the names of the individuals or institutions that hold the debt or credit, the most important being the Spedale e Spedaletto di Santa Maria Novella (p. 7, 22), a Florentine church which also offered pilgrims and those in need medical help; the Chapitolo and Convento delle monache delle convertite (p. 17), a nunnery for young women, often prostitutes, who converted to Catholicism; and the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore (p. 60). An alphabetical index, with 18 lettered tabs, containing names of individuals and institutions that appear in the ledger, is laid into the manuscript. Written in Italy, ca. 1539 (date of latest entries, p. 98). Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9944302523503681?hld_id=22416113250003681Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 859 - Instrumenta mag. fratrum de Tartaleonibus. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 859, copies of 23 documents concerning financial transactions of the Tartaleoni brothers of Milan, dating from 1565 to 1575, each followed by two notarial signets and signatures. Written in Mantua, ca. 1565-1575; 1564 written on cover. Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9931780393503681?hld_id=22370445990003681Publication Penn Library's Ms. Codex 736 - Venetian Capitulary. (Video Orientation)Porter, DotVideo Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's Ms. Codex 59, a collection of papal letters and instruments regarding the order of the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine of Rouen, with copies of documents by Clement VI, Innocent IV, Urban VI, Boniface VIII, Alexander IV, Martin V, Eugene IV, Nicholas V, and Sixtus IV. Includes a letter by the cardinal protector of the order, Guillaume de Estouteville; collection notarized by Marco Marzio Saxoferratensis (f. 29). Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), 29 March 1475 (f. 29r). Record on Find (link to digitized copy): https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924875873503681?hld_id=22283703620003681 Record on Internet Archive (link to PDF): https://archive.org/details/mscodex736