De arithmetica

Description

Title: De arithmetica
Creator: Boethius, -524
Published / Created: [between 1100 and 1150]
Publication Place: Northern France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (poor quality; end pieces) of Boethius, De arithmetica. Text begins imperfectly in Bk. I, ch. 23.
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by multiple scribes (some copying or correcting only brief portions of text) in late caroline minuscule.
Plain intials, 6- to 2-line, red, blue or black, occasionally with modest pen design in red (e.g., ff. 27v-28r). Numerous diagrams and charts throughout.
Parchment stained and warped by damp.
Binding: 19th-20th centuries, Eastern Europe (?). The back pastedown consists of a portion of a Latin parchment document dated 1374. Front pastedown removed and preserved as Marston MS 89A. Sewn on three supports laced into thick oak boards and wedged. Plain wound endbands on alum-tawed cores originally laced into the boards. Covered with parchment with irregularly serrated turn-ins, with a strap-and-pin fastening, the pin on the upper board. The codex has been so tightly rebacked that it is difficult to open.
Provenance: Purchased from G. Heilburn of Paris in 1951 by L. C. Witten who sold it in 1953 to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. 37 : 210 x 140 (155 x 90) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic): Arithmetic
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mathematics, Medieval
Subjects: Boethius, -524
Arithmetic > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mathematics, Medieval
France > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Boethius, De Arithmetica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.