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

Title

Student's notebook on arithmetic and algebra

Authors

• Oughtred, William, 1575-1660
• Diophantus, of Alexandria

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 183
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5311754
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5311754

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English and Latin

Origin

Date

between 1675 and 1685

Place

Cambridge?, England

Summary

Student notebook containing problems copied from standard mathematical works and solved. The sources are Johannes Buteo's Logistica (1559); William Oughtred's Clavis mathematicae (1631) and possibly Gilbert Clerke's Oughtredus explicatus (1682, reference to Oughtred Explayned, f. 55r); and the Fermat-Becher edition of Diophantus (1670).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Vase with grape cluster and initials G [?].

Extent

139 leaves : 145 x 94 mm. bound to 150 x 100 mm

Collation

Paper, 139; 1¹⁴ (-1, first leaf is pastedown) 2-8¹⁶ 9¹⁶ (-2, last leaf is pastedown); text written from front, f. 1-89, and upside down from end, f. 141-107v.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original (late 17th-century) parchment binding, lacking ties; edges sprinkled in red.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (according to H. P. Kraus).
   
• Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 14.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Algebra--Early works to 1800
• Arithmetic--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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