Details

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