| | New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library,
Beinecke MS 298 | | Description: ff. 7 - Nineteenth century. Marbled paper case repaired with plain, brown paper. - Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 17495). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957. - Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 298. | | Notes:-Manuscript on paper of Nicolai Smyrnaei, De supputariis digitorum gestibus, the Latin translation of a Greek mathematical treatise. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 0 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/BeineckeMS298_47 | | Language: Latin; Greek Century: 19th | | View a detailed description: http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms298.htm |
| | Part 1: | | Description: - paper - similar to Heawood 2744. - 190 x 116 (191 x 63) mm. | | Country: | Cardinal point: | | Region: England | City: | | Assigned Date: [ca. 1800] | Searchable Date Range: 1800 - 1800 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: | | Script: Written in italic script (for the Latin translation) and Greek minuscule, apparently by Henry Drury (1778-1841). | | Notes: On the separate folio added after the text is a full page diagram in 36 compartments, each one containing a very delicate drawing of a position of the hand, "sign language" for a letter of the alphabet or a number. Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled paper case repaired with plain, brown paper. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: | | Author: Nicolaus Smyrnaeus. | | Title: De supputariis digitorum gestibus. | | Subjects: Nicolaus Smyrnaeus.; Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.; Mathematics, Greek.; | | Language(s): Latin; Greek | |
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