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Title

A geometricall extraction for all affected to the mathematickes

Authors

• Speidell, John, active 1600-1634
• Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626
• St. George, Henry, 1581-1644

Other related names

• Darker, John, scribe
• Winsor, Jacob, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 321
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9960311683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/860784949
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6031168

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English, with a fragment from a document in Latin (f. 76-78)

Origin

Date

1648

Place

Levington

Summary

Mathematical manuscript largely comprised of a fair copy, without attribution, of the problems, diagrams, and Euclidean references of John Speidell's Geometricall extraction, first published in 1616. Followed by 8 illustrated propositions on measurement, with reference to Edmund Gunter (professor of astronomy at Gresham College, f. 55v) and possibly based on his Description and use of the sector, the crosse-staffe and other such instruments, first published in 1623. The illustrated title page is heavily based on the title page of Gunter's collected works. At the end of the mathematical material, 4 historical documents are bound in: 3 copies of official documents in English on paper from between 1616 and 1621, and a fragment (3 leaves) of a 15th-century land register in Latin on parchment that includes names of communities in southern England such as Larkehyll (Larkhill) and Suthinhame (Southampton). Folio format; the documents are on guards and are folded to fit within the binding, and the paper documents (f. 61-75) are on a mix of folio singletons and bifolia.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Fleur de lis 7211, armorial watermark with crowned fleur-de-lis and pendant initials WR but no initials within the shield; urn with initials PDE surmounted by a crescent and urn with initials AV surmounted by a flower (Richmond Herald document); 2 candlesticks with initials SSDB (impeachment articles copy, 1616); unicorn (James I response copy, 1621).

Extent

70 leaves : 430 x 312 mm bound to 440 x 320 mm +

Foliation

Paper and parchment, i (18th-century paper) + 75 (17th-century paper) + 3 (15th-century parchment) + i (18th-century paper); [1-2], 3-75, [76-78]; later foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century reversed calf, rebacked, with modern morocco labels; stab sewn.

Decoration

Color title page with figures using mathematical instruments, architectural details, insects, and the Dacres coat of arms (f. 1r); 7 elaborate ink drawings of individuals using sectors and quadrants in various settings (f. 56r-59v); geometrical diagrams throughout.

Script

Written in cursive script, with the appended documents in 17th-century secretary script and 15th-century Gothic cursive.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Jacob Winsor, 1667 (inscription, title page, f. 1r).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 15 July 1999, lot 45.
   
• Sold by Simon Finch Rare Books (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, August 1999.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Astronomical instruments--Early works to 1800
• Real property--England--To 1500

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, English--15th century
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 15th century
• 17th century
• Astronomy
• Diagrams
• English
• England
• Mathematics

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — A geometricall extraction for all affected to the mathematickes, f. 1r
• fol. 55v — The instrumentall part wherein I shall demonstrate severall conclusions wrought by the sector, quadrant, crosse-staffe, theodalett, and also by perspective glasses, by the peractor, circumferenter, and plane-table..., f. 55v
• fol. 61r — Orders for the burialle of persons of quallitie and for heralds fee, f. 61r
• fol. 63r — Articles of impeachment against the Earl of Bristow, f. 63r
• fol. 70r — The King's answer to the petition of the House of Commons presented unto him at Newmarkett, f. 70r
• fol. 76r — Fragment of land register, f. 76r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated title page, f. 1r
• fol. 56r — Illustrated diagram, f. 56r
• fol. 56v — Illustrated diagram, f. 56v
• fol. 57v — Illustrated diagram, f. 57v
• fol. 58r — Illustrated diagram, f. 58r
• fol. 58v — Illustrated diagram, f. 58v
• fol. 59r — Illustrated diagram, f. 59r
• fol. 59v — Illustrated diagram, f. 59v