University of Pennsylvania, LJS 289

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS605

Shelfmark:

LJS 289

Title:

Algorismus

Algorismus

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 98 leaves : parchment ; 113 x 90 (72 x 65) mm bound to 120 x 105 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from text of preface (f. 2r).
Collation: Parchment, i + 98 + i; 110 212 310 4-612 7-910; 1-98, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on the last versos of gatherings 1-8. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 18-20 long lines.
Script: Written in Italian commercial cursive script (mercantesca).
Decoration: Minimal decoration around the catchwords on the last verso of each gathering.
Binding: Contemporary (15th-century) blind-tooled leather, possibly Neapolitan; rebacked.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably in the third quarter of the 15th century.
Appears in Fiammetta Soave's catalog One hundred fine & rare books and manuscripts (1994), no. 3; sold to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, May 1999.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Italy

Merchants

Early works

Arithmetic

Mathematics

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958578743503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3hh6c648/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania