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

Title

Opusculum mathematicum

Authors

• Nigroni, Giovanni Battista
• Salvaterra, Giovanni

Other related names

• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 208
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5977473
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5977473

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1675

Place

Genoa?, Italy

Summary

Treatise on geometry dealing with both area and volume, in 7 chapters, written under the direction of the Jesuit Joannes (Giovanni) Salvaterra, who taught mathematics, rhetoric, philosophy, and theology in Genoa, and died in 1680.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. xiii); caption title Tractatus geometricus (p. 1).
   

Extent

45 leaves : 205 x 150 (158 x 120) mm. bound to 215 x 159 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 45 + i leaves; [i-xxii], 1-24, [25-68 (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (late 17th-century) parchment, gilt-tooled, with floral centerpiece and initials G B N (matches binding of LJS 209, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania); sprinkled edges.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines.

Decoration

Title page with pen-and-wash border on heavier paper (p. xiii); numerous small geometrical diagrams set in text.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand, possibly Nigroni's, but probably not the same hand as LJS 209, also possibly Nigroni's.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 39.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Pen-and-wash drawings
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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