Mathematical Manuscripts

4600 Bd. Ms. 146+

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.

[Algorismus, cum glosa / John of Sacro Bosco]

[Germany, ca. 1438]

Subject(s): Mathematics--Early works to 1800. Science--Early works to 1800.

Ms. gatherings. This manuscript is related to Misc. Bd. Mss. 12 and 115. All three are unbound, written on paper of nearly identical dimensions and in the same script, and all three were acquired together from the same source. Misc. Bd. Ms. 115 is dated to 1438 and was written at the monastery of Ewich near Attendorn in Germany. Layout: Written in 32-40 long lines; lightly framed (usually in dry point), but not ruled. Script: Gothic cursive. Decoration: Decorated initials, most of them imperfect. Binding: Unbound, boxed. Origin: Written in Germany, probably at the monastery of Ewich near Attendorn, ca. 1438.

Former shelfmark: MSS Bd. Rare P S12+ Related shelfmark: MS B.52 (De Ricci)

Text in Latin.

Provenance: Bought in 1888 by George Lincoln Burr for the White Library from Dr. Gerhard Hennen at Düsseldorf, Germany.

De Ricci, S.  Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, II, p. 1237.

Volumes :  text, suppl.

Also on microfilm. Manuscript in case. Notes by George Lincoln Burr are housed in a supplemental volume.

 

4600 Bd. Ms. 266 misc.

Sarfati, Joseph ben Moses, fl. ca. 1400-1450.

[ʻIr Siḥon] ; Sefer ḥeshbon / [Joseph ben Moses Sarfati], ca. 1440-1500.

Manuscript containing two mathematical treatises likely composed in the first half of the 15th century. Chiefly Sephardic semi-cursive script, single hand. Brown ink on vellum; ca. 30 lines per page.

Subject(s): Mathematics--Early works to 1800. Manuscripts, Hebrew--Spain--15th century. Hebrew language--Texts.

Other Titles: Sefer ḥeshbon. Title ʻIr Siḥon derived from prefatory quatrain at head of incipit page. Quatrain on first leaf of volume in same hand, commencing Mah ahavti toratekha.... Binding: Quarter vellum over cardboard. Notes in English and Hebrew by Isaac Rabinowitz inserted, including references to Otsar ha-sefarim, by Isaac Benjacob (1801-1863).