Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 232: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 232: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità 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/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title from caption titles (f. 3r, 26v). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 232 9948181893503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/787857965 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4818189 Treatise by Benedetto Varchi on proportion as the basis for rithmomachia, a mathematical game played on a chessboard with pieces that each have a shape and a number; a dialogue written by Carlo di Ruberto Strozzi, in which Cosimo Rucellai, who introduced the game to Benedetto Varchi, teaches the rules to Strozzi and Jacopo di Piero Vettori; and other notes on the game. Later unrelated notes and pen trials on leaves before and after main texts. Damage and bleed-through due to oxidation on many leaves. Italian with a short section in Latin (f. 49r-49v) Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565 Strozzi, Carlo, 1517- scribe Marchioni, Marchiono de former owner Feltrinelli, Giannalisa 1r Letter from Benedetto Varchi to Luca Martini, f. 1r 3r Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalita?, f. 3r 26v Dialogo sopra la particolare dichiaratione..., f. 26v 46v Richimimachia, f. 46v

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 60 leaves : 220 x 166 (168 x 126) mm. bound to 236 x 172 mm

Paper, 60 + 1 loose diagram; 1⁴ 2-4¹⁶ 5-6⁴; [i-iv], 1-15, [16], 17, [18-23], 24, [25-56]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

 Written in 22-24 long lines. Written in an italic script in the hand of Marchiono de Marchioni (f. iii recto). 6 diagrams and drawings of arrangements of numbers or shapes on grids (f. 18r, 30v, 33v, 35v, 36r, 1 loose); 1 small marginal diagram (f. 3r); later sketches in pastel of faces in profile (f. ii verso-iii recto); red initials and rubrics in red with occasional blue initials throughout. Diagrams are very fragile due to oxidation. Bookplate, Inside front cover Owner signatuare, f. i recto Scribe signature, f. ii recto Drawing, Face, f. iii verso Drawing, Face, f. iv recto Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 1r Diagram, f. 3r Diagram, f. 18r Diagram, f. 30v Diagram, f. 33v Diagram, f. 35v Diagram, f. 36r Table, f. 45r

Parchment wrapper formed from a leaf of a 14th-century register of the commune of Florence, with stubs of 2 pairs of ties; a madrigal by Petrarch (Or vedi, Amor...) is written on the upper cover.

Written in Florence after 1539 (f. 2v).

after 1539 Florence, Italy Early ownership inscription without full name (Hic liber est mei Marci Antonii, f. i recto). Formerly in the Bibliotheca Bardi-Serzelli, in Pelago, east of Florence (19th-century (?) bookplate, inside upper cover). Formerly owned by Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate, inside upper cover and inside case). Sold at auction at Christie's in Part 2 of the sale of the Feltrinelli collection, 3 Dec. 1997, lot 220, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg. Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011. Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Rithmomachia (Game) Mathematical recreations--Early works to 1800 Codices Diagrams Dialogues Treatises Manuscripts, Italian--16th century Manuscripts, Latin--16th century Manuscripts, Renaissance 16th century Diagrams Italy Italian Paper Mathematics Treatise