Details

Subject(s)

• Geometry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Scheide 32. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Calf bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Half bindings (Binding) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—Italy—16th century [Browse]
• Formulas, recipes, etc [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]

Summary note

Concerns geometry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Decoration: geometrical figures, spaces reserved for initials.
• Origin: Written in Tuscany by 2 scribes of the 16th century.

Binding note

Half-calf.

Language note

Latin.

Contents

• fols. 1-220r: Practica geometriae.
• fols. 220v: Recipe for making glue to seal a barrel.

Provenance

Number 2 and then was no. 255 in same 18th-century library as Scheide M 78 (= 859).

References

De Ricci, p. 2125, no. 32

Cite as

Scheide Library, Princeton University. M 32.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Italy.

OCLC

54749941

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