Subtilissimi doctoris Anglici Suiset Calculationu[m] liber / per ... Iohane[m] de Cipro dilige[n]tissi[m]e eme[n]dat[ur] ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swineshead, Richard.

Contributor:

N.T.S.P., printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Physical Description:

86 unnumbered leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Calculationu[m] liber

Goff title: Opus aureum calculationum

Text begins: Penes quid habeant intensio et remissio qualitatis atte[n]di pl[ur]es sunt opinio[n]es ...

Fingerprint:

ulap dire taco taci (C) 1477 (Q)

Place of Publication:

Padue : [N.T.S.P.], [1477?]

Notes:

Title, statement of responsibility and place of printing from explicit on leaf n6r, which reads: Subtilissimi Doctoris Anglici Suiset Calculationu[m] Liber. Per Egregium Artiu[m] et Medicine Doctore[m] Magistru[m] Iohane[m] de Cipro dilige[n]tissi[m]e eme[n]dat[ur]. foeliciter Explicit. Deo Gratias. Padue.

Printer's name and imprint date supplied from ISTC.

Median folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 58 lines to a full column; area of text: 230 x 140 mm.; col. width: 64 mm. Initial spaces, some with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: a¹⁰ b⁸ c⁶ cc⁶ d-h⁶ I⁴ k⁴ l-n⁶ (leaf a1 blank).

Leaf l1 signed "k".

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 324 x 228 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: large red and blue initial P on leaf a2r; other initials supplied in red or blue; a few paragraph marks supplied in red and some in brown; chapter titles supplied in red or brown.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. diagrams in brown ink and marginal notes in brown or black ink in text; early ms. contents list in brown ink on leaf a1v; ms. addition ("e") to signature mark on leaves d1-d3 in brown ink; ms. correction of signature mark on leaf l1 (from "k" to "L 1") in brown ink; ms. foliation of leaves a2-n6 ("1"-"85") in brown ink; ms. sketch (of a bird's head?) drawn in red ms. initial N on leaf e1r in brown ink.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1920.

Penn Libraries copy has paper sheet with bookseller's typescript description of this copy (with a few ms. notes in pencil) laid in.

Penn Libraries copy bound in one-quarter parchment over two parchment ms. leaves from a copy of Justinian's Digesta, lib. 47 (written in two columns in a small Gothic hand in dark ink with initials in red or blue ink, some of the latter with red penwork, and headlines in red and blue ink); evidence of two fore-edge ties and one tie each at head and tail edge; 3 raised bands on spine.

Penn Libraries copy: leaf a10 detached from spine; leaves at beginning and end of volume dampstained at fore-edge margin; a few wormholes in margins of leaves; spine damaged at head and tail.

Cited in:

Goff S-830

BM 15th cent. VII, p. 919 (IB.29968)

GW M44275

BN cat. des incun. S-496

BSB-Ink. S-621

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2814

ISTC is00830000

OCLC:

231049308