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., and 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".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
Autograph manuscript arithmetic notebook by Sarah North Pike, 1686, annotated with Pike family records, 1695-1771; and 18 birth certificates for members of the Pike family, printed forms completed in manuscript, dated at Cork, 1724-1776. Arithmetic notes include instructions and practice examples for addition, subtraction, multiplication, reduction, weights and measures, the golden ratio, and barter; calligraphic writing and drawings in colored inks; and brief references to the Sarah North Pike, her teacher Elizabeth Beane, and the North family. Birth certificates and family records document births, marriages, and deaths of children born to Sarah North Pike, 1695-1707, Agnes Riggs Pike, 1721-1723, Mary Randall Pike, 1723-1744, Anne Clibbon Pike, 1766-1771, and Katherine Hutchinson Pike, 1776. Birth certificates are signed by midwives, including male midwives, 1768-1776
Description:
Sarah North Pike (1666-1716) was a daughter of Mary North and Thomas North, of Lewin’s Mead, in Bristol, England. Sarah North married Thomas Pope in 1687; in 1693 she married Ebenezer Pike (1662-1724), of Cork, Ireland, a son of Elizabeth Jackson Pike (1636-1688) and Richard Pike (1627-1688). In 1720, Ebenezer Pike married Agnes Riggs Pike (circa 1690-1723). Children of Sarah North Pike and Ebenezer Pike included Richard Pike (1696-1763), who married Mary Randall Pike (1699-1775) in 1722; their children included Ebenezer Pike (1724-1785), who married Anne Clibbon Pike (1730-1801) in 1765, and Samuel Pike (1726-1796), who married Katherine Hutchinson Pike (1744-1813) in 1769. Members of the Pike family were Quakers and were active as merchants and bankers in Cork, where members of the family founded Pike’s Bank and the Cork Steamship Company., In English., Title page of arithmetic notebook: Sarah North her book, scholler to Eliz Beane, Mrs in the art of writing and arithmetic, anno 1686., and Binding of arithmetic notebook: full calf with gold-tooled covers and spine, page edges gilt, and marbled end papers.
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland, Cork, and Cork (Ireland)
Subject (Name):
Beane, Elizabeth., Pike, Agnes Riggs, approximately 1690-1723., Pike, Anne Clibbon, 1730-1801., Pike, Ebenezer, 1662-1724., Pike, Ebenezer, 1724-1785., Pike, Katherine Hutchinson, 1744-1813., Pike, Mary Randall, 1699-1775., Pike, Richard, 1696-1763., Pike, Samuel, 1726-1796., Pike, Sarah North, 1666-1716., and Pike family.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Study and teaching, Calligraphy, Midwifery, Midwives, Penmanship, English, Quakers, Women, Education, Women midwives, Weights and measures, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection primarily of arithmetic problems and conversion tables interspersed with a large number of verses, both satirical and sentimental, on such subjects as marriage, the sexes, love, and friendship. The collection includes directions for addition, subtraction, multiplcation, and division; tables of weights and measures; and directions for calculating the number of minutes in years. Many of the poems are occasional, including two addressed to Mrs. Christian Kerr on her birthday and two to Mr Kerr of Chatto on his 71st birthday. The volume also contains several further entries concerning the Kerrs' neighborhood, including a copy of "a circular advertisement for the Douffs in Kelso district, the consecration of the yew at Sunlaws." The collection also contains brief journal entries on significant events, including a murder, a burnt house, and memoranda on wages paid and Dos-a-dos, the volume contains more arithmetic problems; financial accounts; household inventories; lists of books in her possession; and a list of expenses concerning her legal "affair with Hardon beginning 1727."
Description:
Christian Kerr, Lady of Chatto and Sunlaws, was the daughter of William Kerr of Chatto and Sunlaws, and inherited her father's estates in preference to her brother. She married her cousin, Charles Kerr, but left no children. In 1759, she entailed the estates of Chatto and Sunlaws on William Scott of Thirlestain., In English., Laid in: copy of a letter, in the same hand, concerning business and family matters., The manuscript contains several crude drawings, especially of faces., On back flyleaf: "William Kerr," "Mrs. Christian Kerr Her Arithmetick Boock.", Author's name on decorated flyleaf. Her name also appears on p. 83, again decorated., and Binding: full parchment; leather ties. Handwritten financial account written on back cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Great Britain, and Kelso (Scotland)
Subject (Name):
Chatto and Sunlaws, Christian Kerr, Lady. and Kerr family.
Subject (Topic):
Accounts, Arithmetic, Study and teaching, English poetry, Households, Inventories, Occasional verse, English, Private libraries, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
