Description
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.
Publication Date
11-7-2022
Keywords
Rithmomachia (Game), Mathematical recreations -- Early works to 1800, Mathematical recreations, Codices, Diagrams, Dialogues, Treatises, Manuscripts Italian, Manuscripts Latin, Manuscripts Renaissance
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Mathematics | Renaissance Studies
Link in Franklin
https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948181893503681
Link in IIIF Manifest
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3c95d/manifest
Recommended Citation
Porter, Dot, "Collation Model for LJS 232: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità" (2022). Collation Models. 118.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/118

Included in
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, Mathematics Commons, Renaissance Studies Commons
Comments
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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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