(Q16733)
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Arithmetica theorica].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Mathematics, Medieval--Sources--Texts
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1450
15. century
1450Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: 13 leaves : paper, ill., charts ; 280 x 214 (190 x 130) mm bound to 29 cm, in box 31 cm
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paper, ill., charts
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: disposium ut...
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Collation: Paper, with watermark of a duck similar to Briquet 12204 and 12205, fol. i (modern paper) + 1 + 12 + i (modern paper) ; 1112+1 (fol. [1] (blank) conjugate with fol. 11, and fol. 12 is a tipped-in singleton) ; catchwords at the bottom of each verso. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page, starting on second leaf, here used for reference.
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Layout: 1 column, approx. 30 lines. Bounding lines ruled by creasing.
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Script: Written in a gothic cursive in brown ink.
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Decoration: Spaces left for two-line initials throughout, no guide letters. Matrices and geometric diagrams throughout margins of fol. 1-8v in the hand of Nicolaus Pol, who owned the manuscript in the late fifteenth century.
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Binding: Remnants of ink title (?) on lower edge. Bound in modern heavy fibrous beige paper, modern flyeaves at front and back, housed in green cloth clamshell case, gilt title on black spine label.
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Origin: Written in southern Germany in the mid-fifteenth century.
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Provenance 1: Belonged to Nicolaus Pol. According to Max Fisch, the manuscript was originally bound in Augsburg for Pol with four other works. The first of these, Georg of Puerbach, Theoricae novae planetarum [Nuremberg: Johann Müller of Königsberg, 1473-4] was sold by Kraus to the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois (Fisch, p. 174, nr. 179), and bears the inscription "Nicolaus Pol Doctor...
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Provenance 2: When the monastery of San Candido was suppressed by Emperor Josef II in 1735, its possessions were confiscated and inventoried, and many of the books sold at auction. Many Pol manuscripts and incunables surfaced in the stock of Munich bookseller Ludwig Rosenthal in the early twentieth century. The majority of the Rosenthal volumes were purchased in 1907 by Edward Clark Streeter...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Sold by Kraus to BPL in 1940 (cat. 20, nr. 20, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 57052 and 104827).
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Call number: MS f Med.103.
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Former call number: MS 1531.
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Bibliography: Margaret Munsterberg, "An Unpublished Mathematical Treatise by Simon Bredon," More Books XIX (1944): 411; Max Fisch, Nicolaus Pol Doctor 1494 (Cleveland, 1947). Luigi Ferrari, "Doctor Nicolaus Pol, la Collegiata di S. Candido ed i suoi incunaboli," Atti del reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti XCVI (1936-37): 109-169 and plates I-III.
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28 November 2023
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28 November 2023
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