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

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1475 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 10 leaves : paper ; 415 x 290 (270 x 180) mm bound to 420 x 300 mm

Note:

Incipit: [I]l volere sapere il prosimo di ciaschuno auto sanza danno ... (f. 1r; first omitted initial and first word uncertain).
Origin: Written in Italy in the last quarter of the 15th century (Sotheby's).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: 19th-century marbled pasteboard with parchment spine and pastedowns of printed leaves from a 19th-century archaeological work.
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).
Ms. codex.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 28, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Mathematics

Italy

Merchants

Arithmetic

Banks and banking

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9957626483503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3v014/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania