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[Handbook of commercial arithmetic]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3599z300
Title: [Handbook of commercial arithmetic]
Name: Marchesi, Giovanni Domenico
Date: 1578
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: codices (bound manuscripts), Handbooks and manuals, Tables (Data), Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Arithmetical tables framed by ornamental borders (Figure di sapere levare...Partire per galera, f. 2-10), followed by a brief introduction (f. 11r, incipit: La regola del tre la qual e fondamento delle ragioni de mercancia, dated 1 April, 1578), and statements of problems and their solutions; with subtitles Prima esemina (f. 25v), seconda esemina (f. 49r), and Quivi finisse l'abaco per ragione...(f. 71v).
Extent: 95 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 200 x 128 mm bound to 206 x 143 mm
Language: Italian
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch)., 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., 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., Origin: Written in Lombardy (Zacour-Hirsch), circa 1578., 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., Italian.
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3599z300
Subject: Mathematics -- Early works to 1800, Mathematics
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 468
Provenance: 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" [?]., Formerly owned by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni of Rome (no. 201 (269))., Gift of Dorothy S. Brady (professor emeritus of economics, University of Pennsylvania), 1967., Boncompagni, Baldassarre, 1821-1894, former owner., Brady, Dorothy S. 1903-1977, former owner, donor.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9924864613503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3599z300/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:: DS1536
Shelfmark:: Ms. Codex 468
Title:: Handbook of commercial arithmetic

Handbook of arithmetic
Author:: Marchesi, Giovanni Domenico

Giovanni Domenico Marchesi WIKIDATA
Place:: Lombardy

Lombardy TGN
Date:: 1578?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT
Language:: Italian

Italian WIKIDATA
Material:: paper, color illustrations

Paper AAT
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
Brady, Dorothy S. 1903-1977

Dorothy Stahl Brady WIKIDATA
Note:: Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
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.
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.
Origin: Written in Lombardy (Zacour-Hirsch), circa 1578.
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.
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" [?].
Formerly owned by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni of Rome (no. 201 (269)).
Gift of Dorothy S. Brady (professor emeritus of economics, University of Pennsylvania), 1967.
Keyword:: Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Sixteenth century

Tables (Data)

Handbooks and manuals

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Mathematics
Institutional Record:: https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924864613503681
IIIF Manifest:: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3599z300/manifest
Holding Institution:: University of Pennsylvania

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