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Title

Geometria

Call number

LJS 320
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4822440
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4822440

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German, with Latin headings and terms

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Germany

Summary

Mathematical treatise with diagrams, illustrations, and exercises. Topics include planar geometry, trigonometry, logarithms, stereometry, perspective, and horology (measurement of time with sundials).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p.1).
   

Extent

92 leaves : 154 x 94 (145 x 83) mm. bound to 162 x 110 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 83 + vii leaves; [iv], 1-159, [160-166]; contemporary pagination in green ink, upper outer corners, slightly trimmed.

Support

Paper

Binding

Marbled paper over boards with title label Geometria on upper cover.

Layout

Written in approximately 30 long lines; text block framed with double-fillet borders in black ink.

Decoration

Geometrical and surveying drawings and diagrams throughout, in three or four colored inks and sometimes with wash; rubrics and headings in red ink.

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Aug. 1999.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Trigonometry--Early works to 1800
• Horology--Early works to 1800
• Sundials--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Pen-and-wash drawings
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

  All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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Decorations

• 51 — Illustrated diagram, p. 51
• 67 — Illustrated diagram, p. 67
• 68 — Illustrated diagram, p. 68
• 71 — Illustrated diagram, p. 71
• 73 — Illustrated diagram, p. 73
• 74 — Illustrated diagram, p. 74
• 77 — Illustrated diagram, p. 77
• 78 — Illustrated diagram, p. 78
• 79 — Illustrated diagram, p. 79
• 80 — Illustrated diagram, p. 80
• 81 — Illustrated diagram, p. 81
• 82 — Illustrated diagram, p. 82
• 83 — Illustrated diagram, p. 83
• 84 — Illustrated diagram, p. 84
• 85 — Illustrated diagram, p. 85
• 86 — Illustrated diagram, p. 86
• 87 — Illustrated diagram, p. 87
• 88 — Illustrated diagram, p. 88
• 89 — Illustrated diagram, p. 89
• 90 — Illustrated diagram, p. 90
• 120 — Illustrated diagram, p. 120
• 121 — Illustrated diagram, p. 121
• 122 — Table, p. 122
• 123 — Table, p. 123
• 124 — Table, p. 124
• 125 — Table, p. 125
• 126 — Illustrated diagram, p. 126
• 128 — Illustrated diagram, p. 128
• 129 — Illustrated diagram, p. 129
• 133 — Table, p. 133
• 137 — Illustrated diagram, p. 137
• 157 — Illustrated diagram, p. 157