
Date of this Version
1-11-2015
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Keywords
Mathematics--Early works to 1800, Astronomy--Early works to 1800, Didactic poetry Latin Codices, Poems, Treatises, Manuscripts Latin--14th century, Manuscripts Medieval
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Recommended Citation
Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 462, Algorismus ... etc." (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 49.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/49


Comments
Didactic poem in 284 lines of hexameter concerning integers (including, for the first time in Latin, zero) and their operations. Followed by an anonymous treatise in verse on the calendar, focusing on establishing feast and fast days, including discussion of solar and lunar movement. Later astronomical notes on star clusters added at the end of the manuscript (f. 14v).