University of Pennsylvania, LJS 488
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS723
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 488
- Title:
- Cose di geometria /
- Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517
- Place:
- Venice?, Italy
- Date:
- after 1494
- Language:
- Italian (Venetian dialect), with three recipes in Latin (f. 17r)
- Material:
- paper, illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 18 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 204 x 150 mm bound to 212 x 158 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from opening rubrics for component works (f. 1r, 8v).
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).
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. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958490103503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3zp43/manifest
- Holding Institution:
