Details

Subjects:

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.
Arithmetic.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Banks and banking -- Italy.
Banks and banking.
Merchants.
Italy.
Merchants -- Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Beginning of a survey of practical applications of mathematics (abacho), algebra (alghorismo), and geometry (fighura) for commercial purposes such as banking or trade, in a larger format than most commercial mathematical manuscripts; missing leaves at end. Spaces left for initials ranging from 3 to 8 lines in height.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: [I]l volere sapere il prosimo di ciaschuno auto sanza danno ... (f. 1r; first omitted initial and first word uncertain).
Foliation: Paper, 10; [1-10], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Single vertical catchword (f. 9v).
Layout: Written in 43-46 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Aigle 81-90 (Tuscany, 1475-1507).
Binding: 19th-century marbled pasteboard with parchment spine and pastedowns of printed leaves from a 19th-century archaeological work.
Origin: Written in Italy in the last quarter of the 15th century (Sotheby's).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 28, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited as:

Oversize LJS 496

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

795237085

Web link:

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