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Title

Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità

Authors

• Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565
• Strozzi, Carlo, 1517-

Other related names

• Marchioni, Marchiono de, scribe
• Feltrinelli, Giannalisa, former owner

Call number

LJS 232
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948181893503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/787857965
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4818189

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian with a short section in Latin (f. 49r-49v)

Origin

Date

after 1539

Place

Florence, Italy

Summary

Treatise by Benedetto Varchi on proportion as the basis for rithmomachia, a mathematical game played on a chessboard with pieces that each have a shape and a number; a dialogue written by Carlo di Ruberto Strozzi, in which Cosimo Rucellai, who introduced the game to Benedetto Varchi, teaches the rules to Strozzi and Jacopo di Piero Vettori; and other notes on the game. Later unrelated notes and pen trials on leaves before and after main texts. Damage and bleed-through due to oxidation on many leaves.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption titles (f. 3r, 26v).
   

Extent

60 leaves : 220 x 166 (168 x 126) mm. bound to 236 x 172 mm

Collation

Paper, 60 + 1 loose diagram; 1⁴ 2-4¹⁶ 5-6⁴; [i-iv], 1-15, [16], 17, [18-23], 24, [25-56]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Parchment wrapper formed from a leaf of a 14th-century register of the commune of Florence, with stubs of 2 pairs of ties; a madrigal by Petrarch (Or vedi, Amor...) is written on the upper cover.

Layout

Written in 22-24 long lines.

Decoration

6 diagrams and drawings of arrangements of numbers or shapes on grids (f. 18r, 30v, 33v, 35v, 36r, 1 loose); 1 small marginal diagram (f. 3r); later sketches in pastel of faces in profile (f. ii verso-iii recto); red initials and rubrics in red with occasional blue initials throughout. Diagrams are very fragile due to oxidation.

Script

Written in an italic script in the hand of Marchiono de Marchioni (f. iii recto).

Provenance

• Early ownership inscription without full name (Hic liber est mei Marci Antonii, f. i recto).
   
• Formerly in the Bibliotheca Bardi-Serzelli, in Pelago, east of Florence (19th-century (?) bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate, inside upper cover and inside case).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's in Part 2 of the sale of the Feltrinelli collection, 3 Dec. 1997, lot 220, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Rithmomachia (Game)
• Mathematical recreations--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Dialogues
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Diagrams
• Italy
• Italian
• Paper
• Mathematics
• Treatise

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Letter from Benedetto Varchi to Luca Martini, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalita?, f. 3r
• fol. 26v — Dialogo sopra la particolare dichiaratione..., f. 26v
• fol. 46v — Richimimachia, f. 46v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Diagram, f. 3r
• fol. 18r — Diagram, f. 18r
• fol. 30v — Diagram, f. 30v
• fol. 33v — Diagram, f. 33v
• fol. 35v — Diagram, f. 35v
• fol. 36r — Diagram, f. 36r
• fol. 45r — Table, f. 45r