[Treatise on practical mathematical calculation]
- Description
- Beginning of a survey of practical applications of mathematics (abacho), algebra (alghorismo), and geometry (fighura) for commercial purposes such as banking or trade, in a larger format than most commercial mathematical manuscripts; missing leaves at end. Spaces left for initials ranging from 3 to 8 lines in height.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Italian
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1475
- Language
- Italian
- Subject
- Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900
- Arithmetic
- Mathematics -- Early works to 1800
- Mathematics
- Banks and banking -- Italy
- Banks and banking
- Merchants
- Merchants -- Italy
- Geographic Subject
- Italy
- Collection
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 10 leaves : paper ; 415 x 290 (270 x 180) mm bound to 420 x 300 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Incipit: [I]l volere sapere il prosimo di ciaschuno auto sanza danno ... (f. 1r; first omitted initial and first word uncertain).
- Foliation: Paper, 10; [1-10], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Single vertical catchword (f. 9v).
- Layout: Written in 43-46 long lines.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
- Watermark: Similar to Briquet Aigle 81-90 (Tuscany, 1475-1507).
- Binding: 19th-century marbled pasteboard with parchment spine and pastedowns of printed leaves from a 19th-century archaeological work.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the last quarter of the 15th century (Sotheby's).
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Italian.
- Related works
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3v014
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs496.html
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 496
- Provenance
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 28, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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