Cover of an Account Book for Biccherna in the Metropolitan Museum, March 2022

Title: Book Cover

Artist: Italian (Sienese) Painter (dated 1343)

Medium: Tempera on wood

Dimensions: 16 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (41 x 24.8 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1910

Accession Number: 10.203.3


The cover is decorated with the chancellor, the clerk, and a purveyor doing their accounts. Inscribed: "Book of the income and expenses of the Biccherna of the commune of Siena from the first of July to the first of January, 1343", followed by the names of the committee members and of its clerk.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436757