Description of University of Pennsylvania LJS 488: Cose di geometria University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 488: Cose di geometria 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/. 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. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 488 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 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. Italian (Venetian dialect), with three recipes in Latin (f. 17r) Cose di geometria Pacioli, Luca, ca. 1445-1517 Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) 1r Cose di geometria, f. 1r 8v Mesure de colonne e capitelli, f. 8v 17r Modus faciendi atramentum pro scribendo, f. 17r 18r Recipes for remedies for stomach ache, f. 18r

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Similar to Briquet Aigle 87 (Florence, 1495; Venice) and Aigle 88 (Florence, 1498; Pisa, 1497-1502; Venice, 1498). 18 leaves : 204 x 150 mm. bound to 212 x 158 mm Paper, 18; 1-16, [17-18], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Written in 18-28 long lines. Written in humanistic cursive (italic) script in one hand, with recipes added at the end by a slightly later hand (f. 17r-18r). 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. Diagram, f. 2v Diagram, f. 3r Diagram, f. 4r Diagram, f. 5r Diagram, f. 5v Diagram, f. 6v Diagram, f. 7r Diagram, f. 8r

Modern calf, blind-ruled.

Written in Italy, probably in Venice, after 1494 (date of first edition of Pacioli's Summa and dates of watermarks).

after 1494 Venice?, Italy 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. Book Type Accounts Almanac Anthology Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Catalog Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Compendium Contract Court records Dictionary Document Dogale Drama Encyclopedia Epic Estate inventory Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Government records Gradual Halakhah Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hybrid book Hymnal Inventory Koran Land survey Lectionary Lecture notes Mass book Miscellany Missal Passion play Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Register Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Speech or address Torah Treatise Will 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 Bohemian Byzantine Carolingian Catalan Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Filipino Flemish French German Greek Hungarian Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Karaite Mamluk Mexican Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Swiss Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calendar Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Engraving Forgery 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 Croatia Czech Republic Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece Hungary India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Mexico Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Switzerland Turkey United States Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Animal culture Aphorisms Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Catholic church Chemistry Church Fathers City planning Cosmology Cryptography Devotion Dialogue Ethics Financial records Fortune-telling Franciscans Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Index Instructional materials Kabbalah Legal Lists Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maps Maritime Mathematics Medieval romance Metaphysics Meteorology Military art and science Mineralogy Mysticism Penitential Philosophy Piyutim Polemic Responsa Rhetoric Schedule Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Shipbuilding Statutes Storytelling Sufism Theology Wine and winemaking Geometry--Early works to 1800 Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800 Ink--Early works to 1800 diagrams codices (bound manuscripts) treatises Excerpts Recipes Manuscripts, Italian--15th century Manuscripts, Italian--16th century Manuscripts, Renaissance 15th century 16th century Paper Italy Italian Diagrams Mathematics