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Algorismus ... [etc.]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3t01t
Title: Algorismus ... [etc.]
Name: Alexander, de Villa Dei
Date: 1300
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Didactic poetry, Latin, Codices, Poems, Treatises, Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero) and their operations. Followed by an anonymous treatise in verse on the calendar, focusing on establishing feast and fast days, including discussion of solar and lunar movement. Later astronomical notes on star clusters added at the end of the manuscript (f. 14v).
Extent: 14 leaves : parchment ; 230 x 149 (158 x 93) mm bound to 236 x 159 mm
Language: Latin
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title for manuscript from incipit (f. 1r) and closing rubric (f. 8r) of predominant work., Table of contents: 1. f.1r-8r: Algorismus / [Alexander de Villa Dei], Table of contents: 2. f.8v-14r: Compotus manualis., Foliation: Parchment, iii (17th- or 18th-century paper and card) + 14 + iii (17th- or 18th-century paper and card); [1-14], modern foliation in ink, upper right recto., Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines. Prickings visible on most leaves., Script: Written in Iberian Gothic script, with notes added at the end in a later English hand, ca. 1500., Decoration: 16 2-line initials, alternating between red with purple flourishing and blue with red flourishing; paragraph marks alternating between red and blue; rubrication in red; first initial of each line touched in red., Binding: 18th-century English parchment spine and marbled paper over boards; spine title in ink, Algorithm & memorial verses MS., Origin: Written in Spain in the first half of the 14th century., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Latin.
Relation: 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-p3t01t, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs462.html, Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000466
Subject: Mathematics -- Early works to 1800, Mathematics, Astronomy -- Early works to 1800, Astronomy, Didactic poetry, Latin
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 462
Provenance: Formerly owned as part of a larger manuscript and then separated and rebound by W. Jones, English mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society; a note written by Jones in which he attributes the Algorismus to Joannes de Sacro Bosco is laid in the manuscript., Formerly owned by George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, student of W. Jones, and housed in the library of Shirburn Castle (the seat of the Earls of Macclesfield in Oxfordshire, England)., Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the library of the Earls of Macclesfield, 22 June 2004, lot 586, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021., Jones, W. 1675-1749, former owner., Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of, approximately 1697-1764, former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9958074143503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3t01t/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:: DS698
Shelfmark:: LJS 462
Title:: Algorismus ... [etc.

Algorismus
Author:: Alexander, de Villa Dei

Alexander of Villedieu WIKIDATA
Place:: Spain

Spain TGN
Date:: between 1300 and 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT
Language:: Latin

Latin WIKIDATA
Material:: parchment

Parchment AAT
Physical Description:: Extent: 14 leaves : parchment ; 230 x 149 (158 x 93) mm bound to 236 x 159 mm
Former Owner(s):: Jones, W. 1675-1749

William Jones WIKIDATA
Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of, approximately 1697-1764

George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield WIKIDATA
Note:: Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from incipit (f. 1r) and closing rubric (f. 8r) of predominant work.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (17th- or 18th-century paper and card) + 14 + iii (17th- or 18th-century paper and card); [1-14], modern foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines. Prickings visible on most leaves.
Script: Written in Iberian Gothic script, with notes added at the end in a later English hand, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 16 2-line initials, alternating between red with purple flourishing and blue with red flourishing; paragraph marks alternating between red and blue; rubrication in red; first initial of each line touched in red.
Binding: 18th-century English parchment spine and marbled paper over boards; spine title in ink, Algorithm & memorial verses MS.
Origin: Written in Spain in the first half of the 14th century.
Formerly owned as part of a larger manuscript and then separated and rebound by W. Jones, English mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society; a note written by Jones in which he attributes the Algorismus to Joannes de Sacro Bosco is laid in the manuscript.
Formerly owned by George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, student of W. Jones, and housed in the library of Shirburn Castle (the seat of the Earls of Macclesfield in Oxfordshire, England).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of the library of the Earls of Macclesfield, 22 June 2004, lot 586, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
Keyword:: Didactic poetry, Latin

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

treatises

Manuscripts, Medieval

Astronomy

Early works

Mathematics
Institutional Record:: https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958074143503681
IIIF Manifest:: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3t01t/manifest
Holding Institution:: University of Pennsylvania

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