ff. 1-5v. [Giorgio Valla] Rubric: Ex Georgio Valla. Incipit: De signis et partibus et scrupulis primis ac secundis ipsorum, Memorandum iam nobis est quo pacto recensi a nobis supputandi numeri referuntur ad signa ad signorum partes quas iuniores gradus vocant ... De compositione ... De subtractione ... De multiplicatione ... De divisione ... Explicit: Nullus siquidem hic numerus ablatus est sed sola pars sola atqui pars numerus neutiquam est monadis siquidem habet rationem. Title supplied by cataloger. Excerpt from Giorgio Valla's De expetendis et fugiendis rebus opus written in Italy towards the beginning of the sixteenth century. Bound after Astrolabii canones. [Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, approximately 1497-1498] (RB 100304). ff. 1-5 verso. Paper. Layout: 1⁶(-1). 33-34 long lines. Watermark(s): Sirène, somewhat similar to Briquet 13891, Rome 1531-35. Written in an Italian gothic littera currens. Rubrics and arithmetical tables carefully entered. Modern pencil foliation in the printer book, 1-30, and in the manuscript, in the same hand, 85-89. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/26/2012. Bound, 19th/20th century, in German half vellum over pasteboards. 100304a. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Mathematics--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Written in Italy towards the beginning of the sixteenth century by the same person who occasionally annotates the printed text. In the lower margin of the title page of the printed text, the 16th century signature of Franciscus Mariotti Asculanus.
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