Details

Subjects:

Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry.
Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800.
Trigonometry.
Horology -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Horology.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Diagrams.
Pen and wash drawings.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

German, with Latin headings and terms.

Summary:

Mathematical treatise with diagrams, illustrations, and exercises. Topics include planar geometry, trigonometry, logarithms, stereometry, perspective, and horology (measurement of time with sundials).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (p.1).
Pagination: Paper, ii + 83 + vii leaves; [iv], 1-159, [160-166]; contemporary pagination in green ink, upper outer corners, slightly trimmed.
Layout: Written in approximately 30 long lines; text block framed with double-fillet borders in black ink.
Script: Written in cursive script.
Decoration: Geometrical and surveying drawings and diagrams throughout, in three or four colored inks and sometimes with wash; rubrics and headings in red ink.
Binding: Marbled paper over boards with title label Geometria on upper cover.
Origin: Written in Germany in the 18th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Martayan Lan (New York) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Aug. 1999.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 50 (LJS 320).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 320.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

792850875

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page