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Title

Algorismus

Call number

LJS 289
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958578743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/818665215
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5857874

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1475?

Place

Italy

Summary

Pedagogical treatise on commercial and practical arithmetic, with extensive use of arabic numerals, descriptions of operations such as multiplication and division, and particular attention to proportions (using the rule of three), money-changing (fiorini, bolognini, and ducati), and alloys of precious metals.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from text of preface (f. 2r).
   

Extent

98 leaves : 113 x 90 (72 x 65) mm. bound to 120 x 105 mm

Collation

Parchment, i + 98 + i; 1¹⁰ 2¹² 3¹⁰ 4-6¹² 7-9¹⁰; 1-98, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on the last versos of gatherings 1-8.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary (15th-century) blind-tooled leather, possibly Neapolitan; rebacked.

Layout

Written in 18-20 long lines.

Script

Written in Italian commercial cursive script (mercantesca).

Provenance

• Appears in Fiammetta Soave's catalog One hundred fine & rare books and manuscripts (1994), no. 3; sold to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, May 1999.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Merchants--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Treatise
• Mathematics

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