Algorismus
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10517522
Description
- Title
- Algorismus
- Alternative Title
-
Algorismus vulgaris
Algorismus Boetii incipit - Creator
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
- Contributor
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Published / Created
- approximately 1460.
- Publication Place
- Italy (?)
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on parchment of Joannes de Sacrobosco's Algorismus vulgaris, a treatise on mathermatics, numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. Here incorrectly attributed to Boethius in the opening rubric
The manuscript is a palimpsest containing portions of Ovid's Heroides: on f. 2, Epistle XVI, lines 109-172; on f. 3, Epistle XVI, lines 173-233; on f. 5, Epistle XIV, lines 79-132; on f. 7, Epistle XIII, lines 119-166; on f. 8, Epistle XVI, lines 234-297. Remaining leaves unidentified
- Description
-
In Latin.
Title assigned by cataloger. Variant title from opening rubric.
Layout: Single columns of 32 lines.
Script: gothic hybrida.
Decoration: rubrication.
Binding: modern paper.
Secundo folio: De additione.
Evidence of pricking. - Provenance
- Contemporary annotations in unidentified hand, including a note questioning the rubric's attribution to Boethius. Unidentified shelfmark (front pastedown): Rsp 93530. Bookplate of Sidney Melmore, with motto, "Super quo bases illius solidates sunt?" Gift of Melmore to Frederick Harrison; from Frederick by descent to his son Kenneth Harrison. Purchased from Maggs Bros. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2002.
- Extent
- 1 item (ii + 8 + i leaves) : 240 mm x 170 mm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 977
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Palimpsests (manuscripts)
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
-
Boethius, -524.
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. - Subject (Topic)
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Manuscripts, Medieval
Mathematics - Subjects
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Boethius, -524
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mathematics > Early works to 1800
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Harrison, Frederick > Ownership
Harrison, Kenneth > Ownership
Melmore, Sidney > Bookplate
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Joannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9892221
- Object ID (OID)
- 10517522