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Title

Elementa geometriae

Authors

• Pourchot, Edme, 1651-1734

Other related names

• Pouget, François-Aimé, 1666-1723, scribe
• Tollain, Jacob, engraver

Call number

Ms. Codex 809
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2975789
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2975789

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with note dated 1695 in French (f. 57v)

Origin

Date

1692

Place

Paris

Summary

Introduction to geometry in 6 books, the last comprised of 15 problems.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

76 leaves : 225 x 165 (175 x 109) mm. bound to 230 x 173 mm

Foliation

Paper, 76; [ii, 1-74]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather, with ELEM GEOM on spine, cracked along upper hinge.

Decoration

Illustrated with pen and ink diagrams; 3 engravings with tables of geometric forms are tipped onto folded leaves at the end, engraved by Jacobus Tollain.

Script

Written in a cursive script in the hand of Franciscus Pouget, "clericus Montispesulnaeus, anno ... 1692," (colophon, f. 56v).

Provenance

• Sold by Roger Gaskell Rare Books (Cambridgeshire), 2000.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Engravings
• Tables
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 5r — Diagram, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Diagram, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Diagram, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Diagram, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Diagram, f. 9v
• fol. 10v — Diagram, f. 10v
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Diagram, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Diagram, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 15r — Diagram, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Diagram, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Diagram, f. 16r
• fol. 19v — Diagram, f. 19v
• fol. 20v — Diagram, f. 20v
• fol. 21v — Diagram, f. 21v
• fol. 22r — Diagram, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Diagram, f. 22v
• fol. 24r — Diagram, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
• fol. 25v — Diagram, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Diagram, f. 26v
• fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
• fol. 44v — Diagram, f. 44v
• fol. 71r — Diagram, f. 71r
• fol. 72r — Diagram, f. 72r
• fol. 73r — Diagram, f. 73r