School exercise-book: mathematics

Description

Title: School exercise-book: mathematics
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of mathematical operations and arithmetic exercises
Description: In Italian.
Script: copied by two contemporary hands in Humanistica Cursiva Currens; the second hand is only visible at the bottom of ff. 2v and 5v. Written in one column in campo aperto.
No decoration.
Watermark: Dog, var. Briquet 3591 or 3594.
Binding: unbound. Placed in s. XX grey paper cover, with printed title lable on front cover: “SCHOOL EXERCISE-BOOK: / MATHEMATICS // ITALY, FIFTEENTH CENTURY”.
Provenance: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Chicago and Paris, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 10 : 115 x 105 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Education, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mathematics, Medieval
School notebooks
Subjects: Education, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mathematics, Medieval
School notebooks
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: School Exercise-Book: Mathematics. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.