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Title

Handbook of commercial arithmetic

Authors

• Marchesi, Giovanni Domenico

Other related names

• Boncompagni, Baldassarre, 1821-1894, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 468
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924864613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63613513
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486461

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1578

Place

Lombardy

Summary

Arithmetical tables framed by ornamental borders (Figure di sapere levare...Partire per galera, f. 2-10), followed by a brief introduction (f. 11r, incipit: La regola del tre la qual e fondamento delle ragioni de mercancia, dated 1 April, 1578), and statements of problems and their solutions; with subtitles Prima esemina (f. 25v), seconda esemina (f. 49r), and Quivi finisse l'abaco per ragione...(f. 71v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• This manuscript has been identified by Ron Thomson with no. 201 (269) in the library of Baldassarre Boncompagni (see Menso Folkerts and Ron B. Thomson, "Boncompagni Manuscripts: Present Shelfmarks"). When cataloged as no. 201 in 1892, it was slightly larger (234 x 135 mm) and bound in parchment that was a fragment from a Bible page.
   

Extent

95 leaves : 200 x 128 mm. bound to 206 x 143 mm

Foliation

Paper, 100; 1-52, [i], 53-65, 65-79, [i], 80-86, [i], 87-93, [i], 94-95; slightly later foliation in ink, upper right recto. Unnumbered folio between f. 93-94 cut out, but stub with some text remains.

Support

Paper

Binding

20th-century[?] vellum; trimmed and rebound after 1892 (when listed in Narducci catalog of Boncompagni library). Fragile. Oxidation of ink has resulted in holes in some of the decorations; f. 1 torn.

Decoration

Decorated arithmetical tables (f. 1r-10r); zoo-anthropomorphic initial with dragon's head and grotesque faces (f. 1r); inhabited zoomorphic initial with dragon's head and haloed figure holding flowering branch (f. 49r); inhabited initial with Saint Ambrose (f. 71v); calligraphic initials throughout, some with grotesque faces, in red, green, purple, and ocher.

Script

Written in a humanistic script, with final leaves (f. 91-95) in another, less formal hand.

Provenance

• Entry on last blank page indicates that this volume was given by Lucretia to her brother who might be identical with the person named in the next lines "Gio. Domenico Verni" [?].
   
• Formerly owned by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni of Rome (no. 201 (269)).
   
• Gift of Dorothy S. Brady (professor emeritus of economics, University of Pennsylvania, d. 1977), 1968.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Zoo-anthropomorphic initial, Initial G, Dragon with grotesque faces, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Decorated table, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Decorated table, f. 3r
• fol. 4r — Decorated table, f. 4r
• fol. 5r — Decorated table, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Decorated table, f. 6r
• fol. 7r — Decorated table, f. 7r
• fol. 8r — Decorated table, f. 8r
• fol. 9r — Decorated table, f. 9r
• fol. 10r — Decorated table, f. 10r
• fol. 25v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 25v
• fol. 49r — Inhabited zoomorphic initial, Initial S, Dragon with haloed figure holding flowering branch, f. 49r