University of Pennsylvania, LJS 488

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS723

Shelfmark:

LJS 488

Title:

Cose di geometria /

Mathematical texts

Author:

Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517

Luca Pacioli WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice?, Italy

Venice TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

after 1494

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

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

Italian WIKIDATA

Venetian WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from opening rubrics for component works (f. 1r, 8v).
Foliation: Paper, 18; 1-16, [17-18], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 18-28 long lines.
Script: Written in humanistic cursive (italic) script in one hand, with recipes added at the end by a slightly later hand (f. 17r-18r).
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.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Aigle 87 (Florence, 1495; Venice) and Aigle 88 (Florence, 1498; Pisa, 1497-1502; Venice, 1498).
Binding: Modern calf, blind-ruled.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably in Venice, after 1494 (date of first edition of Pacioli's Summa and dates of watermarks).
Formerly held in a private collection in Europe.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 2007.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Sixteenth century

diagrams

treatises

Excerpts

Recipes

Ink

Early works

Geometry

Architecture--Orders

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958490103503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3zp43/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania