Text set / His booke of arithmetick, annoque domini 1726 /Thomas Dalrymple.

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Title: His booke of arithmetick, annoque domini 1726 /Thomas Dalrymple.
Alternative Title: Cost book, 1730
Creator: Dalrymple, Thomas.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1726
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: Manuscript. Several pages cut out after leaf 55. Bound in full vellum.
Scope/Content: Mathematical exercise book in a calligraphic hand written by Thomas Dalrymple in 1726-1727, demonstrating a variety of practical applications for arithmetic. Pages are decorated with calligraphic embellishments and flourishes and with some color drawings unrelated to the text. An alphabetical table following the exercises was apparently used in conjunction with the volume's later use as an account book by another party.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Calligraphy (visual works)
Account books
Extent: 55 leaves, [10] p. ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n16w3p
MS.1966.001
Language: English
eng
Subject: Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.--Specimens.
Arithmetic--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
School notebooks--Specimens.
Place: Ireland
Location: CLUW

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