Copyist's MS., Modern binder's blanks unscanned., Modern binding, in case with original boards., and Original boards scanned rather than current binding.
Subject (Name):
Bever, Thomas, 1725-1791, provenance and Boyce, William, 1711-1779, provenance
Autograph manuscript treatise in two parts, containing definitions and problems in mathematics. The first part, dated 1708, concerns arithmetic operations. The second part, dated 1710, concerns geometry and trigonometry, with sections on applications in construction trades and astronomy and with extensive sections on navigation. Sections are illustrated with ink drawings and geometric diagrams. Several linear scales and volvelles are sewn in.
Description:
Chiefly in English; explanations in part one are in Latin, some with English translations.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy --Early works to 1800 and Mathematics --Early works to 1800
First line of poem: Roboreus longo se porrigit aequore Campus; last line: Stat juxta, & niveis Victoria cencrepat alis.
Description:
Contemporay ms. note in Beinecke Library copy attributes authorship to Tho. Master of New College, Oxf and Poem in Latin (61 lines); lacks the last two verses in the 63-line broadside ed. Oxoniae : Excudebat Leon. Lichfield academiae typographus, A.D. 1[651?]
The volume contains bass or continuo parts to Sonatas, Airs, Overtures, Dances, and other pieces by Henry Purcell ((1659-1695), Daniel Purcell ([1660]-1717), John Jenkins (1592-1678), William Lawes (1602-1645), Nicola Matteis, Diedrich Becker, Robert Wren, A. Poole, Matthew Locke (1630-1677), and Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). The volume is written in several hands, and William H. Cummings, a biographer of Purcell, has written on l.11: ""This curious book contains several pages undeniably in the handwriting of Henry Purcell..."" The other hands are attributed by Cummings to Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674), John Blow (1648-1708), and William Croft (1678-1727).
Subject (Name):
Becker, Dietrich, 1623-1679, Cummings, William Hayman, 1831-1915, provenance, Jenkins, John, 1592-1678, Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680, Lawes, William, 1602-1645, Locke, Matthew, 1621 or 2-1677, Matteis, Nicola, fl. 1672-1699, and Purcell, Daniel, 1660?-1717