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Title

Facsimile of LJS 462, Algorismus ... etc.

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

1-11-2015

Files

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).

Keywords

Mathematics--Early works to 1800, Astronomy--Early works to 1800, Didactic poetry Latin Codices, Poems, Treatises, Manuscripts Latin--14th century, Manuscripts Medieval

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5807414

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs462.html

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