Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Le quistioni aritmetiche di Diofanto generalmente risolute

Authors

• Diophantus, of Alexandria
• Billy, Jacques de, 1602-1679

Other related names

• Boncompagni, Baldassarre, 1821-1894, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 408
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1581182
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1581182

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Italy

Summary

Mathematical work with numbered problems and corollaries and numerous equations arranged in 7 sections (Preliminari, Libri I-VI), including solutions and commentary from Diophantus geometra promotus (Paris, 1660) by Jacques de Billy, a French Jesuit and mathematician. A table of contents of the problems and corollaries of each book, titled Sommari de' problemi al Diofanto, follows the work (f. 218v-239r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 3r).
   

Extent

240 leaves : 290 x 204 mm. bound to 298 x 217 mm

Foliation

Paper, 240; [1-240]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Prince Baldassare Boncompagni of Rome (no. 225, label on cover).
   
• Sold by Perrella, 1904; originally held in the Krauth Library of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania; later transferred to the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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