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til00315000

Text-inc Id:
til00315000
Bod-inc Id:
L-167
Headings:
Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità, et al.
Analysis of content:
  1. [*1r] [Table of contents.] ‘Continentia de tutta l'opera.’
  2. [*1v] Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri (Pacioli, Luca): [Letter addressed to] Marcus Sanutus. Incipit: ‘Non me preterit, magnifice senator, omnes quos aliquod virtutis specimen oblectet . . .’
  3. [*1v] Pompilius, Fa: Epigramma [addressed to the reader]. Incipit: ‘Que fuerant mediis carie consumpta latebris | Restituit Lucas, lector, amice tibi'; 8 elegiac distichs.
  4. [*1v] Summaripa, Georgius: Epigramma [addressed to] Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri. Incipit: ‘Chi douesse lodar tua nobeltate | La pratica teorica e doctrina | Per l'opra non humana ma diuina'; 17 lines of verse.
  5. [*1v] ‘Registrum geometrie.’
  6. [*1v] [Colophon.]
  7. [*2r] [Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri: Letter addressed to] Guidubaldus I de Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[C]onsiderando, illustrissimo s. d., la immensa dolcezza e grandissima vtilita . . .’
  8. [*3r] Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri: [Letter addressed to] Guidubaldus I de Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[Q]uom animaduerterem, illustrissime princeps, immensas dulcedines ac maximas vtilitates . . .’
  9. [*4v] [Summaries.] Incipit: ‘Summario de la prima parte principale. [D]iuidese tuttta(!) la presente opera in 5 parti principali . . .’
  10. [*5v] [Table of contents for part I.] ‘Tauola de la prima parte principale.’
  11. a1r Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri: ‘Prefatio' [addressed to] Guidubaldus I de Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Incipit: ‘[L]a quantita, magnanimo duca, e si nobile e excellente, cosa che molti phylosophi . . .’
  12. a1r Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri: Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità: Tractatus arithmeticae. Incipit: ‘Dico adonca. La quantita essere immediate bimembre cioe continua e discreta . . .’ Partly edited (`Distinctio nona, tractatus xi: particularis de computis et scripturis') in Luca Pacioli, Trattato di partita doppia, ed. A. Conterio (Venice, 1994); see S. A. Jayawardene, ‘Pacioli, Luca', DSB X 269-72, at 269-70, and Barnabas Hughes, ‘Franciscans and Mathematics', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 77 (1984), 3-66, at 38-43, with the contents of this edition discussed at 39-40. Although the title contains four elements, the author seems to have covered only the first two in this work.
  13. AA14v [First colophon.]
  14. A1r Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri: Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità: Tractatus geometriae. Incipit: ‘[O]ra col nome di Iesu segue la seconda parte principale dela presente opera in la qual . . .’
  15. K5r [Table of contents for part II.] ‘Tauola de la 2a parte principale.’
  16. K6r [Second colophon.]
Imprint:
Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, 10-20 Nov. 14[9]4. Folio.
Collation:
[*] a–z [et] [con]8 [rum]10 AA14 A–H8 I K6. Gathering [*] numbered, but not signed. Woodcut capitals, diagrams, and figures.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: il00315000 HC (+ Addenda) 4105; Goff L‑315; BMC V 457; Pr 5168; CIBN II p. 355; Derek Ashdown Clarke, ‘The First Edition of Pacioli's “Summa de arithmetica” (Venice, Paganinus de Paganinis, 1494)', Gb Jb (1974), 90-2; Essling 779; IGI 7132-3; Oates 2026-7; Sander 5367; Sheppard 4264-6; Smith, Arithmetica, 54-7. Facsimile: Budapest, 1994. LCN: 14442018, 14442111
Copies:
  1. L-167(1) First copy With the original setting of the variant sheets described by BMC, as in IGI 7132. Leaf a1r, within a strap-work border: (red) ‘Ad illuſtriſſimum Principem Gui. Vbaldum Vrbini Ducē Montis fe | retri: ac Durantis Comitem . . . Fratris Luce de Burgo ſan | cti Sepulchri . . . In arteƺ arith- | metice: [et] Geometrie. Prefatio.' [reproduced in Essling]. Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) parchment. Size: 310 × 220 × 52 mm. Size of leaf: 304 × 213 mm. Occasional early annotations and ‘nota' marks. Provenance: Purchased from C. J. Sweetinburgh for £0. 18. 0; see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 333 (1831), and Books Purchased (1832), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 1.25.
  2. L-167(2) Second copy Variant: gatherings a–c, and sheets d1-2, e1, and A1 are in a later setting (in type 83 G as used in Paganinus's edition of Euclid of 1509), as in IGI 7133. In the gatherings mentioned, guide-letters only, except historiated L (47 × 45 mm), O (white on black ground 46 × 40 mm), and S (15 × 15 mm) each used once. Leaf a1r, no border: (red) ‘Ad illuſtriſſimum Principem Gui. Vbaldum Vrbini Ducem fere- | tri ac Durantis Comitem . . . fratris Luce de Burgo ſancti Sepulchri . . . | . . . In arteƺ arithmetice. [et] Geometrie. Prefatio.’ Binding: Early seventeenth-century English (Oxford) blind-tooled calf; the front endleaf is a proof-sheet of James, Catalogus (1605), printed on one side of the leaf only, and without rules; and the back endleaf a leaf from a sixteenth-century(?) edition of Gratianus, Decretum. Size: 312 × 220 × 60 mm. Size of leaf: 301 × 211 mm. Occasional pointing hands. Provenance: Ralph Hutchinson (sixteenth/seventeenth century); William Hutchinson (sixteenth/seventeenth century); inscription on [*1r]: ‘A Guiglielmo Huchinsono appartiene hoggi [ ] il libro dal suo fratello Ra. Huchinson'. Sir Henry Savile (1549-1622). Savile Library; book-label: ‘Bibliotheca Saviliana Oxon.’ Transferred in 1884. SHELFMARK: Savile P 8.
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