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Title

Facsimile of LJS 232, Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

9-8-2015

Files

Comments

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.

Keywords

Rithmomachia (Game), Mathematical recreations--Early works to 1800 Codices, Diagrams, Dialogues, Treatises, Manuscripts Italian--16th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4818189

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs232.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 232, Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 174.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/174