Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957626483503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/795241648
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5762648

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1475 and 1499

Place

Italy

Summary

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.

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).
   

Watermark

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Banks and banking--Italy
• Merchants--Italy

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused printed leaf, Inside front cover
• Inside back cover — Reused printed leaf, Inside back cover