Details

Subjects:

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.
Arithmetic.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Merchants -- Italy.
Merchants.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Pedagogical treatise on commercial and practical arithmetic, with extensive use of arabic numerals, descriptions of operations such as multiplication and division, and particular attention to proportions (using the rule of three), money-changing (fiorini, bolognini, and ducati), and alloys of precious metals.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from text of preface (f. 2r).
Collation: Parchment, i + 98 + i; 1¹⁰ 2¹² 3¹⁰ 4-6¹² 7-9¹⁰; 1-98, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on the last versos of gatherings 1-8. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 18-20 long lines.
Script: Written in Italian commercial cursive script (mercantesca).
Decoration: Minimal decoration around the catchwords on the last verso of each gathering.
Binding: Contemporary (15th-century) blind-tooled leather, possibly Neapolitan; rebacked.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably in the third quarter of the 15th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Fiammetta Soave's catalog One hundred fine & rare books and manuscripts (1994), no. 3; sold to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, May 1999.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 43 (LJS 289).

Cited as:

LJS 289

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

818665216

Web link:

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

Collation model