Cose di geometria

Name:

Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517; Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1494

Description:

Excerpts from the second part of Luca Pacioli's synthesis of mathematics, first printed in Venice in 1494, concerning geometry; and from the sixth and seventh books of Leon Battista Alberti's architectural treatise De re aedificatoria, concerning the architectural orders of columns and capitals (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian). One page of recipes in Latin for ink (f. 17r) and one page of recipes in Italian for stomach ache (f. 18r) at the end of the manuscript.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly held in a private collection in Europe.; Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 2007.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

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/ljs488.html

Subject:

Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Geometry; Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800; Ink -- Early works to 1800; Ink; Architecture -- Orders

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); Diagrams; Treatises; Excerpts; Recipes; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

18 leaves : paper, illustrations; 204 x 150 mm bound to 212 x 158 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title for manuscript from opening rubrics for component works (f. 1r, 8v).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-8r: Cose di geometria / estratte dal frate dal Borgo.; Table of contents: 2. f.8v-16r: Mesure de colonne e capitelli / estracte da Vitruvio e Leone Batista Alberti.; Table of contents: 3. f.17r: Modus faciendi atramentum pro scribendo.; Table of contents: 4. f.18r: [Recipes for remedies for stomach ache]; Foliation: Paper, 18; 1-16, [17-18], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 18-28 long lines.; Script: Written in humanistic cursive (italic) script in one hand, with recipes added at the end by a slightly later hand (f. 17r-18r).; Decoration: Small geometric diagrams in first work (f. 2v-8r), some with points lettered or captioned in faint red ink; 2-line faint red initials in first work (f. 1r-6r); rubrics in faint red ink throughout.; Watermark: Similar to Briquet Aigle 87 (Florence, 1495; Venice) and Aigle 88 (Florence, 1498; Pisa, 1497-1502; Venice, 1498).; Binding: Modern calf, blind-ruled.; Origin: Written in Italy, probably in Venice, after 1494 (date of first edition of Pacioli's Summa and dates of watermarks).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Italian (Venetian dialect), with three recipes in Latin (f. 17r).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 488

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)