Introduction aux mathematiques
- Description
- Introduction to mathematics in four books, mostly on the subject of plane geometry, illustrated with diagrams.
- Creator
- Buot, J. (Jacques)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, French
- Manuscripts, European
- Date
- 1675
- Language
- French
- Subject
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800
- Geometry -- Early works to 1800
- Geometry
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching
- Extent
- 236 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 245 x 185 (163 x 98) mm bound to 252 x 195 mm + 6 notes
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Member of the Académie des Sciences of Paris from its founding in 1666, mathematician, astronomer, physicist.
- Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Paper, ii + 232 + ii; 1-172, [iv], 173, [ii], 168-169, [vi], 176-177, [vi], 184-185, [vi], 192-193, [vi], 200-201, [vi], 208, [xii]; near-contemporary foliation in ink; 1-172, [173-232], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by one or two hands.
- Decoration: Illustrated with diagrams throughout.
- Binding: Contemporary leather with title and attribution on spine. Top quarter of manuscript is water-stained, but text is legible.
- Origin: Written in France, 1675-1699.
- Marginal notes in pencil in a later hand.
- French.
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 808
- Provenance
- Sold by Roger Gaskell, 2000.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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