University of Pennsylvania, LJS 488

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS723

Shelfmark:

LJS 488

Title:

Cose di geometria /

Author:

Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517

Luca Pacioli WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice?, Italy

Venice TGN

Date:

[after 1494]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian (Venetian dialect), with three recipes in Latin (f. 17r)

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 18 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 204 x 150 mm bound to 212 x 158 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably in Venice, after 1494 (date of first edition of Pacioli's Summa and dates of watermarks).
Title for manuscript from opening rubrics for component works (f. 1r, 8v).
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Aigle 87 (Florence, 1495; Venice) and Aigle 88 (Florence, 1498; Pisa, 1497-1502; Venice, 1498).
Decoration: Small geometric diagrams in first work (f. 2v-8r), some with points lettered or captioned in faint red ink; 2-line faint red initials in first work (f. 1r-6r); rubrics in faint red ink throughout.
Script: Written in humanistic cursive (italic) script in one hand, with recipes added at the end by a slightly later hand (f. 17r-18r).
Layout: Written in 18-28 long lines.
Foliation: Paper, 18; 1-16, [17-18], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Binding: Modern calf, blind-ruled.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 2007.
Formerly held in a private collection in Europe.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

diagrams

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Renaissance

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Recipes

Excerpts

Architecture--Orders

Geometry

Ink

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958490103503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3zp43/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania