Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità; Dialogo sopra la particolare dichiaratione del giuoco di Pitagora inter locutori Carlo Strozzi, Cosimo Rucellai, et Iacopo Vettori

Contributor:

Marchioni, Marchiono de (scribe)

Name:

Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565; Strozzi, Carlo, 1517-

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1539

Description:

Treatise by Benedetto Varchi on proportion as the basis for rithmomachia, a mathematical game played on a chessboard with pieces that each have a shape and a number; a dialogue written by Carlo di Ruberto Strozzi, in which Cosimo Rucellai, who introduced the game to Benedetto Varchi, teaches the rules to Strozzi and Jacopo di Piero Vettori; and other notes on the game. Later unrelated notes and pen trials on leaves before and after main texts. Damage and bleed-through due to oxidation on many leaves.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Early ownership inscription without full name (Hic liber est mei Marci Antonii, f. i recto).; Formerly in the Bibliotheca Bardi-Serzelli, in Pelago, east of Florence (19th-century (?) bookplate, inside upper cover).; Formerly owned by Giannalisa Feltrinelli (bookplate, inside upper cover and inside case).; Sold at auction at Christie's in Part 2 of the sale of the Feltrinelli collection, 3 Dec. 1997, lot 220, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.; Feltrinelli, Giannalisa, former owner.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025254; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs232.html; Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/118/

Subject:

Martini, Luca, 1980-; Rucellai, Cosimo, 1495-1519; Vettori, Jacopo; Rithmomachia (Game); Mathematical recreations -- Early works to 1800; Mathematical recreations

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Diagrams; Dialogues; Treatises; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

60 leaves : paper, illustrations; 220 x 166 (168 x 126) mm bound to 236 x 172 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption titles (f. 3r, 26v).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-2v: [Letter from Benedetto Varchi to Luca Martini] / Benedetto Varchi.; Table of contents: 2. f.3r-26r: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità / [Benedetto Varchi]; Table of contents: 3. f.26v-46r: Dialogo sopra la particolare dichiaratione del giuoco di Pitagora inter locutori Carlo Strozzi, Cosimo Rucellai, et Iacopo Vettori / [Carlo Strozzi]; Table of contents: 4. f.46v-51r: Richimimachia.; Collation: Paper, 60 + 1 loose diagram; 1⁴ 2-4¹⁶ 5-6⁴; [i-iv], 1-15, [16], 17, [18-23], 24, [25-56]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 22-24 long lines.; Script: Written in an italic script in the hand of Marchiono de Marchioni (f. iii recto).; Decoration: 6 diagrams and drawings of arrangements of numbers or shapes on grids (f. 18r, 30v, 33v, 35v, 36r, 1 loose); 1 small marginal diagram (f. 3r); later sketches in pastel of faces in profile (f. ii verso-iii recto); red initials and rubrics in red with occasional blue initials throughout. Diagrams are very fragile due to oxidation.; Binding: Parchment wrapper formed from a leaf of a 14th-century register of the commune of Florence, with stubs of 2 pairs of ties; a madrigal by Petrarch (Or vedi, Amor...) is written on the upper cover.; Origin: Written in Florence after 1539 (f. 2v).; Italian with a short section in Latin (f. 49r-49v).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 232

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)