[Mathematical miscellany].

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Euclid. Elements--Book 1.

Euclid.

Euclid. Elements--Book 7.

Geometry--Study and teaching--16th century.

Geometry.

Mathematics--Study and teaching--16th century.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Geometry--Study and teaching.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

treatises

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1959.

Physical Description:

177 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 310 x 218 (270 x 150) mm

Other Title:

De triangoli.

De' i triangoli.

Quantita nota si chiama quella, la quale pigliata.

Di alcune premissioni necessarie alla introductione e dichiaratione del 5. libro di Euclide.

In primam propositionem libri primi Euclidis.

Super data recta linea terminata in angulum equilatenem constituere propositio.

Ad datum punctum date recte linea equalem rectam lineam ducere.

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1600 and 1699]

Language Note:

Italian, with some headings in Latin.

Summary:

Collection of mathematical works.

Contents:

1. f.1r-34v: De triangoli.

2. f.37r-56v: Di alcune premissioni necessarie alla introdutione e dichiaratione del 5. libro di Euclide.

3. f.57r-58v: In primam propositionem libri primi Euclidis.

4. f.60r-87r: Super data recta linea terminata in angulum equilatenem constituere prepositio; Ad datum punctum date recte linea equalem rectam lineam ducere [and many other short geometrical propositions].

5. f.90r-175v: [Several short treatises on geometry.]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Title of first work as given in heading (f. 4r): De' i triangoli.

Incipit of first work (f. 4r): Quantita nota si chiama quella, la quale pigliata ...

Some sections might have been written before the volume was bound. The paper is not all the same size, especially within the fourth section.

Foliation: Paper, 177; [i], 1-176; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. The various sections have traces of contemporary separate foliations.

Script: Written in cursive script by many hands.

Decoration: Mathematical diagrams throughout.

Binding: Quires sewn together but not bound into a cover. Fragile; binding not secure in some places. Edges of most leaves badly frayed. Some oxidation of ink.

Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 103 (Ms. Italian 55).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 296

OCLC:

155964301