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Title

Authors

• Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517
• Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958490103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/815972360
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs488.html https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3zp43 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5849010 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

after 1494

Place

Venice?, Italy

Summary

Excerpts from the second part of Luca Pacioli's synthesis of mathematics, first printed in Venice in 1494, concerning geometry; and from the sixth and seventh books of Leon Battista Alberti's architectural treatise De re aedificatoria, concerning the architectural orders of columns and capitals (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian). One page of recipes in Latin for ink (f. 17r) and one page of recipes in Italian for stomach ache (f. 18r) at the end of the manuscript.

Notes

• Title for manuscript from opening rubrics for component works (f. 1r, 8v).
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• 4. f.18r: [Recipes for remedies for stomach ache]
   
• 3. f.17r: Modus faciendi atramentum pro scribendo.
   
• 2. f.8v-16r: Mesure de colonne e capitelli / estracte da Vitruvio e Leone Batista Alberti.
   
• 1. f.1r-8r: Cose di geometria / estratte dal frate dal Borgo.
   

Watermark

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Small geometric diagrams in first work (f. 2v-8r), some with points lettered or captioned in faint red ink; 2-line faint red initials in first work (f. 1r-6r); rubrics in faint red ink throughout.

Script

Provenance

• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 2007.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Formerly held in a private collection in Europe.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800
• Ink--Early works to 1800

Genres

• diagrams
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• treatises
• Excerpts
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian
• Diagrams
• Mathematics

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Cose di geometria, f. 1r
• fol. 8v — Mesure de colonne e capitelli, f. 8v
• fol. 17r — Modus faciendi atramentum pro scribendo, f. 17r
• fol. 18r — Recipes for remedies for stomach ache, f. 18r

Decorations

• fol. 2v — Diagram, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Diagram, f. 3r
• fol. 4r — Diagram, f. 4r
• fol. 5r — Diagram, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Diagram, f. 7r
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r