Details

Subjects:

Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Engravings (prints)
Tables (documents)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

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

Biography/History:

Professor of philosophy at the University of Paris in the Collège de quatre-nations, also known as the Collège Mazarin; supporter of Cartesian philosophy, in opposition to Aristotelianism.

Summary:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 76; [ii, 1-74]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script in the hand of Franciscus Pouget, "clericus Montispesulnaeus, anno ... 1692," (colophon, f. 56v).
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.
Binding: Contemporary leather, with ELEM GEOM on spine, cracked along upper hinge.
Origin: Written in Paris in 1692 (colophon, f. 56v).

Penn Provenance:

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

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 809

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155910985