Libro di abbaco

Description

Title: Libro di abbaco
Creator: Cortona, Giovanni Battista
Published / Created: 1574.
Publication Place: Northern Italy (Udine)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (thick) of Giovanni Battista Cortona, Libro di Abbaco, probably an autograph manuscript
Description: In Italian.
Watermark: anchor, var. Piccard, Ankerwasserzeichen?, V.102?.
Script: Written by one hand in calligraphic Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Cancelleresca). The poem on f. A1r (art. 1) is in calligraphic Humanistica Cursiva Formata. A few titles in Capitalis.
The decorative frames on ff. A1r and B1r are traced in brown ink. The upper half of the former contains a baroque cartouche in brown and red, containing a monogram apparently consisting of the letters A, K and M. Art. 2 opens with a flourished initial, art. 7 with a calligraphic initial, both in red.
No binding.
Provenance: Collection of A.R.A. Hobson, London. Purchased from Laurence Witten in 1984.
Extent: ff. 36 : 200 x 145 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Cortona, Giovanni Battista.
Subject (Topic): Abacus
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Mathematics, Medieval
Subjects: Cortona, Giovanni Battista
Abacus
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature > 16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Mathematics, Medieval
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Giovanni Battista Cortona, Libro di Abbaco. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.