Arithmetica pratica

Description

Title: Arithmetica pratica
Published / Created: [between 1575 and 1600]
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three
Description: In Italian.
Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?.
Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata.
A few geometrical figures.
Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink.
Binding: Original limp parchment, a large circle traced with a sharp pencil on the front cover, a group of small circles in the form of a cross on the rear cover. At the top left corner of the front cover a paper label with the 16th-17th century inscription in Humanistica Cursiva: "Mathematicorum. Anonymi arithmetica manu scripta linguae Italicae". On the spine is written in the same type of script "Aritmetica" and, at the top, the letter "A".
Provenance: Collection of A.R.A. Hobson, London. Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. xi + 26 + iii : 215 x 160 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Arithmetic
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mathematics, Medieval
Subjects: Arithmetic > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mathematics, Medieval
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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