Aldus Manutius the Younger, De Antiquis Numerorum Notis

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This elegant and fascinating humanistic booklet contains unique manuscript copies of two short arithmetic treatises by Aldus Manutius the Younger, classical scholar, printer, and owner of the eminent Aldine Press. These texts were quite possibly copied before either was first printed, and the second treatise displays some significant differences from the print version. Both are worth closer study as early works of classical scholarship, for their connection to the Manutius family, and as possible witnesses to Manutius's compositions before they went to press. -- Les Enluminures website. De antiquis numerorum notis : included in the 'Epitome orthographi??' of Aldus Manutius the Younger, first printed in 1575 by the Aldine press in Venice. Interpraetatio numerorum quibus in ratione pecuniaria veteres utebantur : first printed under the title 'De sestertiis, ad Johannem Cratonem a Crafftheim' in the 'De quaesitis per epistolam' of Aldus Manutius the Younger, first printed by the Aldine Press in 1576 in Venice.

In Collection:
Creator Subject Language Identifier
  • Shelf Mark: Ms.It.1
  • Call number: P211 M275 1550
Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 6 folios; paper; 211 x 60 mm (21.1 cm)
Alternative title
  • Interpraetatio numerorum quibus in ratione pecuniaria veteres utebantur; Concerning ancient writing of numbers; Meaning of numbers which the ancients used in monetary reckoning; De antiquis numerorum notis. Interpraetatio numerorum quibus in ratione pecuniaria veteres utebantur
Geographic coverage Coordinates
  • 42.83333, 12.83333
Additional physical characteristics
  • Modern foliation in pencil, top outer recto, 1-6, complete (collation, i6), ruled with full-length vertical bounding lines produced by folding the leaves lengthwise into quarters, text written in brown ink in an elegant, slanted humanistic cursive script in one or two columns of twenty-five lines (ff. 1-3v written in one column; ff. 4-6v written in two columns), diagrammatic tables or charts on ff. 1 (letter M), and 4-6v (on monetary quantities). Bound in contemporary, slightly waterstained.
Physical repository Collection
  • Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance
  • Purchased from Les Enluminures (reference number 794), October 2014.
Provider Genre Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • January 17, 2017
Technical note
  • Scanned by CDeWolfe using the Betterlight TTI @ 600dpi. Cropped, no colour correction or size editing. Metadata by KD.
Rights
  • Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
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