Description
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.
Publication Date
7-26-2022
Keywords
Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900, Arithmetic, Mathematics -- Early works to 1800, Mathematics, Merchants -- Italy, Merchants, Italy, Codices, Treatises, Manuscripts Italian, Manuscripts Renaissance.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Medieval Studies
Link in Franklin
https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958578743503681
Link in IIIF Manifest
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3hh6c648/manifest
Recommended Citation
Porter, Dot, "Collation Model for LJS 289: Algorismus [manuscript]." (2022). Collation Models. 10.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/10
Comments
The .zip file Archive contains:
VisColl collation model XML file
JSON collation model file
Folder of PNG files, one for each quire
Folder of SVG files, one for each quire
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Screenshot of VCEditor view, PDF format (same as the main file)
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