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

Title

Authors

• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958784843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/823652984
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5878484 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1338707 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3jm23v87

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 500 and 699

Place

Fayyūm?, Egypt

Summary

Fragment of board coated with gesso, with a pair of holes along the long side for ties to other boards in a simple codex. 5 columns of Greek numerals demonstrating division by 8 on recto; verso stained dark brown.

Notes

• Ms. fragment.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Support

Layout

Provenance

• Appears in Charles Ede Ltd.'s catalog Writing and lettering in antiquity IX (1983), no. 29.
   
• Formerly held in a private collection in Texas.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 December 1997, lot 93, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics, Ancient
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• fragments (object portions)
• Tables (Data)
• Manuscripts, Greek--6th century
• Manuscripts, Greek--7th century

Keywords

• 6th century
• 7th century
• Egyptian
• Egypt
• Fragment
• Mathematics

Licenses

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