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Title

Facsimile of LJS 289, Algorismus

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

1-10-2015

Files

Comments

Pedagogical treatise on commercial and practical arithmetic, with extensive use of arabic numerals, descriptions of operations such as multiplication and division, and particular attention to proportions (using the rule of three), money-changing (fiorini, bolognini, and ducati), and alloys of precious metals.

Keywords

Arithmetic--Early works to 1900, Mathematics--Early works to 1800, Merchants--Italy Codices, Treatises, Manuscripts Italian--15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5857874

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs289.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 289, Algorismus" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 146.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/146