Manuscript treatise on commercial arithmetic for apprentice cloth merchants : in Italian

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Title:
Manuscript treatise on commercial arithmetic for apprentice cloth merchants : in Italian
Description:
A treatise on commercial arithmetic dealing with topics such as bartering, computing shares of profit in business partnerships, calculating interest on money lent, etc. Arithmetical exercises are distributed throughout.
Author:
Alamanni, Tommaso Giovanni, active 16th century
Former owner:
Maggs Bros.
Date:
[1500?–1550?]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy
Vellum bindings
humanistic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Places:
Italy > Tuscany (region) > Firenze (province) > Florence
Extent:
95 leaves : paper ; 24 cm (4to)
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Italian
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Italy -- possibly Florence -- between approximately 1500 and 1550.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: On fol. 95v, a number of autographs, pen trials, and drawings, including the name "Tomasso Giovanni Alamanni." One the same page, an escutcheon with the name "Buo[n]romei."
Notes (acquisition):
Purchase; Maggs; 19680611.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Maggs Brothers in June, 1968.
Notes (date):
Date range based on watermark evidence (see collation note) and on the series of arithmetical exercises on fol. 64v-66v, which incorporate example dates between 1494 and 1502.
Notes (object):
Layout: Introductory sections written in approximately 22 long lines per page; arithmetical exercises in various layouts.
Script: Written in a formal mercantestca script.
Manuscript in Italian. Ink on paper, limp vellum binding.
Collation: Paper with two watermarks: an anvil with hammer surrounded by a circle, similar to Briquet 5963 (dated to 1514-1535) and a pair of crossed arrows with a six-pointed star, similar to Briquet nos. 6298-6300 (dated between 1543 and 1556), fol. iv (later paper) + 95 + iv (later paper) ; 1⁶ 2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4¹² 5¹⁴ 6¹⁰ 7¹² 8⁶ 9¹² 10⁶⁻¹ ; leaves unsigned, foliated in modern pencil in upper-outer margins, those numbers here used for reference.
Binding: Bound in (later?) limp vellum.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred: 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), pp.77-78.
Notes (language):
In Italian.
Identifier:
06_01_020026
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q It.14
Barcode:
39999090888445