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Title: Mathematical cipher book.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1684
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: "Anno qz. dom. 1684" appears on multiple pages.
Scope/Content: Manuscript mathematical cipher book dated 1684 by an anonymous English student. The text exemplifies various mathematical and arithemetical functions and is embellished throughout with calligraphic flourishes and command-of-hand drawings in black ink.
Condition: Bound in original brown calf; spine and hinges loose.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Calligraphy (visual works)
Extent: 140 leaves, bound ;31 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1h04w
f MS.1949.003
Language: English
eng
Subject: Arithmetic--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.--Specimens.
Place: England
Location: CLUW

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