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This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Italian compendium of practical information for Florentine merchants, including rules of exchange and a method for finding out what day of the week a given month begins in a given year. It is a humanistic manuscript on parchment. The work in this manuscript was published in Florence in December 1481; the colophon of the manuscript is dated July 1481. The body of the text follows closely the version in Paciola's later Summa de arithmetica, published in 1494. Most of the chapter numbers in the chapter headings of the manuscript, left blank by the scribe, were filled in by a later reader. The manuscript contains 195 chapters whereas the printed versions contain only 194 chapters.
Support: Parchment; Extent: 100; 161 x 110 mm bound to 170 x 125 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (8), 2-8 (10), 9 (6), 10-11 (8); Signatures: Modern signatures in pencil, lower center last verso, 1-11; Catchwords: Original vertical catchwords in ink, lower right last verso, quires 2-9
Single column of twenty-two lines; ruled in faint ink with vertical bounding lines in faint red; written area: 100 x 60 mm
Humanistic
Six-line illuminated initial and damaged coat of arms surrounded by a laurel wreath and floral extensions on first page of text (fol. 9r); two-line and four-line red and blue initials throughout; rubrication in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Florence?, Italy
1481
Leather, blind-tooled and -stamped, with two clasps; Costumi, Cambi, Moneta, Pesi, written on spine in ink; Phillips label 6994
Italian
Written by Ludovico Bertini, Florence, 1481 (colophon, fol. 100r); formerly owned by Matteo di Lorenzo di Francesco, Scarperia, 1591 (ownership note, fol. 100r); formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Phillipps mss. No. 6994; purchased by Temple University from Wm. H. Robinson, 1951 (dealer's label inside front cover; Catalogue 81 (1950) Item 115)
Florence?, Italy
1481
Italian
Written by Ludovico Bertini, Florence, 1481
This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Italian compendium of practical information for Florentine merchants, including rules of exchange and a method for finding out what day of the week a given month begins in a given year. It is a humanistic manuscript on parchment. The work in this manuscript was published in Florence in December 1481; the colophon of the manuscript is dated July 1481. The body of the text follows closely the version in Paciola's later Summa de arithmetica, published in 1494. Most of the chapter numbers in the chapter headings of the manuscript, left blank by the scribe, were filled in by a later reader. The manuscript contains 195 chapters whereas the printed versions contain only 194 chapters.
Humanistic
Six-line illuminated initial and damaged coat of arms surrounded by a laurel wreath and floral extensions on first page of text (fol. 9r); two-line and four-line red and blue initials throughout; rubrication in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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