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Title

Handbook on arithmetic

Call number

Ms. Codex 881
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3180183
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3180183

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1786-1791

Place

Southampton County (Va.)

Summary

Handbook, with many examples, covering basic arithmetic; weights and measures; proportions; insurance on property; partnerships in trade and cropping; simple interest; money exchange; and geometry, for use in school. Examples for "Division of crops" include shares for employers, overseers, and slaves; other examples are based on trade with the West Indies.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

74 leaves : 322 x 197 mm. bound to 324 x 202 mm

Foliation

Paper, 74; [iv], 1-134, [135-144]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather.

Decoration

Illustrated with diagrams and a pen and ink drawing of a tree [back flyleaf].

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with a second hand written over the first in some places.

Subjects topical

• Arithmetic--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Handbooks
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• 14 — Decorated tables, p. 14
• 34 — Diagram, p. 34
• 125 — Diagram, p. 125
• 126 — Diagram, p. 126
• 127 — Diagram, p. 127
• 129 — Diagram, p. 129
• 130 — Diagram, p. 130
• 132 — Diagram, p. 132
• 136 — Diagram, p. 136
• 143 — Drawing, Tree, p. 143