University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 496
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS730
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 496
- Title:
- Treatise on practical mathematical calculation
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1475 and 1499
- Language:
- Italian
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 10 leaves : paper ; 415 x 290 (270 x 180) mm bound to 420 x 300 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: [I]l volere sapere il prosimo di ciaschuno auto sanza danno ... (f. 1r; first omitted initial and first word uncertain).
Foliation: Paper, 10; [1-10], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Single vertical catchword (f. 9v).
Layout: Written in 43-46 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Aigle 81-90 (Tuscany, 1475-1507).
Binding: 19th-century marbled pasteboard with parchment spine and pastedowns of printed leaves from a 19th-century archaeological work.
Origin: Written in Italy in the last quarter of the 15th century (Sotheby's).
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 28, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9957626483503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3v014/manifest
- Holding Institution:
