[Student's notebook on arithmetic and algebra]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1675

Description:

Student notebook containing problems copied from standard mathematical works and solved. The sources are Johannes Buteo's Logistica (1559); William Oughtred's Clavis mathematicae (1631) and possibly Gilbert Clerke's Oughtredus explicatus (1682, reference to Oughtred Explayned, f. 55r); and the Fermat-Becher edition of Diophantus (1670).

Language:

English

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (according to H. P. Kraus).; Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978.; Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 14.; Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.; 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/ljs183.html

Subject:

Algebra -- Early works to 1800; Algebra; Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics; Arithmetic

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); lecture notes; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, English; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

139 leaves : paper; 145 x 94 mm bound to 150 x 100 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 139; 1¹⁴ (-1, first leaf is pastedown) 2-8¹⁶ 9¹⁶ (-2, last leaf is pastedown); text written from front, f. 1-89, and upside down from end, f. 141-107v.; Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.; Watermark: Vase with grape cluster and initials G [?].; Binding: Original (late 17th-century) parchment binding, lacking ties; edges sprinkled in red.; Origin: Written in England, possibly Cambridge (Oughtred and Diophantus were used as textbooks in Cambridge from the mid-17th century), likely between 1675 and 1685.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; English and Latin.; Related Work: Oughtred, William, 1575-1660. Clavis mathematicae.; Related Work: Diophantus, of Alexandria. Arithmetica.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 183

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)