Details

Subjects:

Mathematics, Ancient.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions)
Tables (Data)

Language:

Greek numerals.

Summary:

Fragment of board coated with gesso, with a pair of holes along the long side for ties to other boards in a simple codex. 5 columns of Greek numerals demonstrating division by 8 on recto; verso stained dark brown.

Notes:

Ms. fragment.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 5 columns, in landscape orientation.
Origin: Probably written in a Christian community in Fayyūm, Egypt, in the 6th or 7th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Charles Ede Ltd.'s catalog Writing and lettering in antiquity IX (1983), no. 29.
Formerly held in a private collection in Texas.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 December 1997, lot 93, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
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. 35 (LJS 228).

Cited as:

LJS 228.

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

823652985

Web link:

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