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Le quistioni aritmetiche di Diofanto generalmente risolute.

Author/Creator:
Diophantus, of Alexandria
Publication:
[Italy], [between 1700 and 1799]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
240 leaves : paper ; 290 x 204 mm bound to 298 x 217 mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
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).
Foliation: Paper, 240; [1-240]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 18th century.
Penn 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.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 129 (Ms. Italian 176).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 408
Contributor:
Billy, Jacques de, 1602-1679.
Boncompagni, Baldassarre, 1821-1894, former owner.
OCLC:
155968607