Facsimile of LJS 232, Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità
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Rithmomachia (Game)
Mathematical recreations--Early works to 1800 Codices
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Mathematical recreations--Early works to 1800 Codices
Diagrams
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Manuscripts Italian--16th century
Manuscripts Renaissance
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2015-09-08
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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.