[Handbook on arithmetic].
- Publication:
- [Southampton County (Va.)], [1786-1791]
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
74 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 322 x 197 mm bound to 324 x 202 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
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- Other Title:
- Arithmetic
- Subjects:
- Arithmetic -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
Arithmetic -- Study and teaching. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Diagrams.
Handbooks.
Manuscripts, American. - 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.
Pagination: Paper, 74; [iv], 1-134, [135-144]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with a second hand written over the first in some places.
Decoration: Illustrated with diagrams and a pen and ink drawing of a tree [back flyleaf].
Binding: Contemporary leather.
Origin: Written in Southampton County, Virginia, 1786 (p. 1) to 1791 (p. 142). - Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 881
- OCLC:
- 155923005