Opusculum mathematicum

Name:

Nigroni, Giovanni Battista; Salvaterra, Giovanni

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1675

Description:

Treatise on geometry dealing with both area and volume, in 7 chapters, written under the direction of the Jesuit Joannes (Giovanni) Salvaterra, who taught mathematics, rhetoric, philosophy, and theology in Genoa, and died in 1680.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 39.; Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Stanitz, John D., former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

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/ljs208.html

Subject:

Mathematics -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics; Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Geometry

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Diagrams; Pen and wash drawings; Treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

45 leaves : paper; 205 x 150 (158 x 120) mm bound to 215 x 159 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. xiii); caption title Tractatus geometricus (p. 1).; Pagination: Paper, i + 45 + i leaves; [i-xxii], 1-24, [25-68 (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 30 long lines.; Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand, possibly Nigroni's, but probably not the same hand as LJS 209, also possibly Nigroni's.; Decoration: Title page with pen-and-wash border on heavier paper (p. xiii); numerous small geometrical diagrams set in text.; Binding: Contemporary (late 17th-century) parchment, gilt-tooled, with floral centerpiece and initials G B N (matches binding of LJS 209, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania); sprinkled edges.; Origin: Written in Italy, probably Genoa (by association with Giovanni Salvaterra), in 1675 (p. xiii).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 208

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)