University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 468

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1536

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 468

Title:

Handbook of commercial arithmetic.

Author:

Marchesi, Giovanni Domenico

Giovanni Domenico Marchesi WIKIDATA

Place:

Lombardy

Lombardy TGN

Date:

[1578?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 95 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 200 x 128 mm bound to 206 x 143 mm

Former Owner(s):

Boncompagni, Baldassarre, 1821-1894

Baldassarre Boncompagni WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
This manuscript has been identified by Ron Thomson with no. 201 (269) in the library of Baldassarre Boncompagni (see Menso Folkerts and Ron B. Thomson, "Boncompagni Manuscripts: Present Shelfmarks"). When cataloged as no. 201 in 1892, it was slightly larger (234 x 135 mm) and bound in parchment that was a fragment from a Bible page.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, 100; 1-52, [i], 53-65, 65-79, [i], 80-86, [i], 87-93, [i], 94-95; slightly later foliation in ink, upper right recto. Unnumbered folio between f. 93-94 cut out, but stub with some text remains.
Script: Written in a humanistic script, with final leaves (f. 91-95) in another, less formal hand.
Decoration: Decorated arithmetical tables (f. 1r-10r); zoo-anthropomorphic initial with dragon's head and grotesque faces (f. 1r); inhabited zoomorphic initial with dragon's head and haloed figure holding flowering branch (f. 49r); inhabited initial with Saint Ambrose (f. 71v); calligraphic initials throughout, some with grotesque faces, in red, green, purple, and ocher.
Origin: Written in Lombardy (Zacour-Hirsch), ca. 1578.
Binding: 20th-century[?] vellum; trimmed and rebound after 1892 (when listed in Narducci catalog of Boncompagni library). Fragile. Oxidation of ink has resulted in holes in some of the decorations; f. 1 torn.
Formerly owned by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni of Rome (no. 201 (269)).
Entry on last blank page indicates that this volume was given by Lucretia to her brother who might be identical with the person named in the next lines "Gio. Domenico Verni" [?].
Gift of Dorothy S. Brady (professor emeritus of economics, University of Pennsylvania, d. 1977), 1968.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Mathematics

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924864613503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3599z300/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania