LEADER 03908ctm a2200409u 4500001 9947165743506421 005 20240812150611.0 008 060302s1715 enk|||||||||||||| ||eng|d 035 (idCotsen)46473 035 |9(cotsenAccess)137721 035 (cotsendb)19698 035 (NjP)4716574-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager4716574 100 1 Binford, John. 245 10 Copybook of arithmetic problems. 260 [Tiverton, Devon?: |cbetween 1715 and 1716]. 300 116 [i.e. 111] leaves. |bill (ink and watercolor drawings highlighted with red, yellow and green) |c30.3 cm. 500 Title supplied by cataloger (title wanting) 500 Leaves, which are numbered in upper left, are wanting for 1, 7, 16, 32, and 67. 500 2. Numeration, 3. The species of arithmetic, 4. Addition, 5. Addition in whole numbers, 6. Addition of mony, 8. Apothecaries weights, 9. Averdupoise weights, 10. Wine measures, 11. Dry measure in addition, 12. Cloth measure, 13. Long measure in addition, 14. Land measure in addition; 15. Subtraction, 17. Subtraction of gold weights or troy weights, 18. Subtraction of Averdupoise, 19. Subtraction of Wine measures, [20?]. Subtraction of dry measures, 25. Questions in subtraction; 26. Multiplication, 27-29. Multiplications, rule, 30-31. Questions in multiplication, 33. Divisions rule of 1 wai[?], 34. Divisions rule, 35-39. Questions in division, 40. Reductions rule, 41-51. Reductions of min, ...mony, ...troy, ... apothecary weights, ... averdupoise..., ...wool..., ...wine, ...dry measure, ...elot (land)..., ... long ..., ...time, 52-53. Questions in reduction, [*] Double selling, [**]. Subtraction of long measures, [***]. ... time, 55-56. Rule of three, 57-65. {these alternate use of golden rule and rule of 3 for the following: troy, apothecary weights, averdupoise, wine, dry measures, cloth, long measures, elot, & [?]}, 66, 68-70. Backward rule of three, 71-79. Arithmetical progression, 80-83. Geometrical progression, 84 Practice, 85-89. Practice rule..., 90-102. Practices best way, 103- 105. All practice art included, 106. Variety of Practice art..., 107. Another variety of practice, 108-109. Merchants merrour of practice, 110. Merchandising, 111. Fellowship, 112. Fellowship of time, 113-116. Simple Fellowship. 500 Dated from the word problem under heading 'Questions in subtraction' : "Mr Blundels free School in Tiverton was built in the year of 1604 how many Years Since is it to this year 1715...". 500 Elaborately illustrated and ornamented by the talented student, including a portrait, presumably of his Schoolmaster Joseph Shallis, aged 25 on l. 84. Many typical ornaments: angels, control of pen exercises terminating in grotesques, historiation of capitals, but also drawings of the Emperor of Germany and the King of Poland, a charming illustration of a cat playing the fiddle as mice dance "The cat doth play and after slay...", a hedgehog, heraldic dolphins "naiant" and "ludent", a cameleopard and a goat, as well as a variety of elaborately knotted and interlaced initials. On leaf 34 is a tribute to King George I. 500 Entertaining mnemonic verses for some of the operations. 563 Later full vellum; new 1/4 green mor. clamshell. 583 edges trimmed with loss of headlines, some short tears (repaired on verso), a loss supplied. |5NjP 583 0 |kbat. 583 0 BIBDATA.LEVEL: Volume 3 -- Exclude. 653 Ciphering books. 653 Manuscripts -- Arithmetic 653 Penmanship 653 Original artwork 653 Juvenilia 653 Blundell's Free School, Tiverton, Devon 653 Free School, Tiverton, Devon 653 Blundell, Peter 653 Shallis, Joseph -- Portraits 856 42 |3Commentary |uhttps://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2015/09/cotsen-library-receives-eric-carle-honors/