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Title

Penn Library's LJS 462 - Algorismus ... [etc.]. (Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

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Date of this Version

1-9-2022

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 462, a 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

Written in Spain in the first half of the 14th century.

Digital copy and a full record are available through Franklin: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958074143503681

Record on Internet Archive, with a link to a PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs462

Link to eBook

https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/49/

Link to OPENN

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

Keywords

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

Disciplines

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Medieval Studies | Poetry

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Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2022, January 09). Penn Library's LJS 462 - Algorismus ... [etc.]. (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/199