<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Arithmetica pratica</dc:title><dc:date>[between 1575 and 1600]</dc:date><dc:language>ita</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three</dc:description><dc:description>In Italian.</dc:description><dc:description>Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?.</dc:description><dc:description>Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata.</dc:description><dc:description>A few geometrical figures.</dc:description><dc:description>Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink.</dc:description><dc:description>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".</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>