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Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità ; Dialogo sopra la particolare dichiaratione del giuoco di Pitagora inter locutori Carlo Strozzi, Cosimo Rucellai, et Iacopo Vettori

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3c95d
Title: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità ; Dialogo sopra la particolare dichiaratione del giuoco di Pitagora inter locutori Carlo Strozzi, Cosimo Rucellai, et Iacopo Vettori
Name: Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565, Strozzi, Carlo, 1517-, Marchioni, Marchiono de (scribe)
Date: 1539
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Diagrams, Dialogues, Treatises, Manuscripts, Italian, Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Treatise by Benedetto Varchi on proportion as the basis for rithmomachia, a mathematical game played on a chessboard with pieces that each have a shape and a number; a dialogue written by Carlo di Ruberto Strozzi, in which Cosimo Rucellai, who introduced the game to Benedetto Varchi, teaches the rules to Strozzi and Jacopo di Piero Vettori; and other notes on the game. Later unrelated notes and pen trials on leaves before and after main texts. Damage and bleed-through due to oxidation on many leaves.
Extent: 60 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 220 x 166 (168 x 126) mm bound to 236 x 172 mm
Language: Italian
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title from caption titles (f. 3r, 26v)., Table of contents: 1. f.1r-2v: [Letter from Benedetto Varchi to Luca Martini] / Benedetto Varchi., Table of contents: 2. f.3r-26r: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità / [Benedetto Varchi], Table of contents: 3. f.26v-46r: Dialogo sopra la particolare dichiaratione del giuoco di Pitagora inter locutori Carlo Strozzi, Cosimo Rucellai, et Iacopo Vettori / [Carlo Strozzi], Table of contents: 4. f.46v-51r: Richimimachia., Collation: Paper, 60 + 1 loose diagram; 1⁴ 2-4¹⁶ 5-6⁴; [i-iv], 1-15, [16], 17, [18-23], 24, [25-56]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record., Layout: Written in 22-24 long lines., Script: Written in an italic script in the hand of Marchiono de Marchioni (f. iii recto)., Decoration: 6 diagrams and drawings of arrangements of numbers or shapes on grids (f. 18r, 30v, 33v, 35v, 36r, 1 loose); 1 small marginal diagram (f. 3r); later sketches in pastel of faces in profile (f. ii verso-iii recto); red initials and rubrics in red with occasional blue initials throughout. Diagrams are very fragile due to oxidation., Binding: Parchment wrapper formed from a leaf of a 14th-century register of the commune of Florence, with stubs of 2 pairs of ties; a madrigal by Petrarch (Or vedi, Amor...) is written on the upper cover., Origin: Written in Florence after 1539 (f. 2v)., Italian with a short section in Latin (f. 49r-49v).
Relation: Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025254, The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3c95d, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs232.html, Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/118/
Subject: Martini, Luca, 1980-, Rucellai, Cosimo, 1495-1519, Vettori, Jacopo, Rithmomachia (Game), Mathematical recreations -- Early works to 1800, Mathematical recreations
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 232
Provenance: Early ownership inscription without full name (Hic liber est mei Marci Antonii, f. i recto)., Formerly in the Bibliotheca Bardi-Serzelli, in Pelago, east of Florence (19th-century (?) bookplate, inside upper cover)., Formerly owned by Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate, inside upper cover and inside case)., Sold at auction at Christie's in Part 2 of the sale of the Feltrinelli collection, 3 Dec. 1997, lot 220, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019., Feltrinelli, Giannalisa, former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9948181893503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3c95d/manifest

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DS ID:: DS134
Shelfmark:: LJS 232
Title:: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità; Dialogo sopra la particolare dichiaratione del giuoco di Pitagora inter locutori Carlo Strozzi, Cosimo Rucellai, et Iacopo Vettori

Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità
Author:: Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565

Benedetto Varchi WIKIDATA
Scribe:: Marchioni, Marchiono de

Marchiono de Marchioni WIKIDATA
Place:: Florence, Italy

Florence TGN

Italy TGN
Date:: after 1539

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT
Language:: Italian with a short section in Latin (f. 49r-49v)

Italian WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA
Material:: paper, illustrations

Paper AAT
Physical Description:: Extent: 60 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 220 x 166 (168 x 126) mm bound to 236 x 172 mm
Former Owner(s):: Feltrinelli, Giannalisa

Giannalisa Feltrinelli WIKIDATA
Note:: Ms. codex.
Title from caption titles (f. 3r, 26v).
Collation: Paper, 60 + 1 loose diagram; 14 2-416 5-64; [i-iv], 1-15, [16], 17, [18-23], 24, [25-56]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 22-24 long lines.
Script: Written in an italic script in the hand of Marchiono de Marchioni (f. iii recto).
Decoration: 6 diagrams and drawings of arrangements of numbers or shapes on grids (f. 18r, 30v, 33v, 35v, 36r, 1 loose); 1 small marginal diagram (f. 3r); later sketches in pastel of faces in profile (f. ii verso-iii recto); red initials and rubrics in red with occasional blue initials throughout. Diagrams are very fragile due to oxidation.
Binding: Parchment wrapper formed from a leaf of a 14th-century register of the commune of Florence, with stubs of 2 pairs of ties; a madrigal by Petrarch (Or vedi, Amor...) is written on the upper cover.
Origin: Written in Florence after 1539 (f. 2v).
Early ownership inscription without full name (Hic liber est mei Marci Antonii, f. i recto).
Formerly in the Bibliotheca Bardi-Serzelli, in Pelago, east of Florence (19th-century (?) bookplate, inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate, inside upper cover and inside case).
Sold at auction at Christie's in Part 2 of the sale of the Feltrinelli collection, 3 Dec. 1997, lot 220, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Keyword:: Manuscripts, Renaissance

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

dialogues

treatises

Manuscripts, Italian

Vettori, Jacopo

Early works

Rithmomachia (Game)

Rucellai, Cosimo, 1495-1519

Martini, Luca, 1980-

Mathematical recreations
Institutional Record:: https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9948181893503681
IIIF Manifest:: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3c95d/manifest
Holding Institution:: University of Pennsylvania

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