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Sūma de arithmetica geometria proportioni [et] proportionalita

Title
Sūma de arithmetica geometria proportioni [et] proportionalita

Alternative Title: Summa de arithmetica geometria proportioni [et] proportionalita

Alternative Title: Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proportionalità
Creator / Contributor
Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517
Place of Origin
Italy
Vinegia [Venice]
Publisher
Paganino de Paganini da Brescia
Date
1494
Description
Extent: [8], 224, 76 leaves : ill ; 31 cm(fol.)
print
Subjects
Genre
Incunabula-Italy-Venice-1494.
Booksellers' labels (Provenance)-Italy-Rome.
Marginalia (Provenance)
Underscoring (Provenance)
Type ornaments (Type)-Italy-Venice-1494.
Upper case types (Type)-Italy-Venice-1494.
Early works to 1900
Early works to 1800
Notes
Title from incipit.
Author named in several places, including head of leaf a1 recto: Ad illustrissimum Principem Gui. Vbaldum Vrbini Duce[m] Montis feretri ... Fratris Luce de Burgo sancti Sepulchri: Ordinis mino[rum] sacre theologie magistri. In artem arithmetice: [et] geometrie. Prefatio.
Imprint from 2nd colophon.
First colophon on leaf 2A14 verso: Et si sequenti p[ar]ti p[ri]ncipali Geo[metri]e finis decima nouembris i[m]positus fuerit: huic tamen p[ar]ti die vigesima eiusdem i[m]positus fuit. Mo.cccc.lxliiij. Per eosdem correctorem [et] impressorem vt i[n] fine Geo[metri]e h[uic]
Second colophon: Peruenuti ... al desiderato fine de lo i[n]te[n]to nostro in questa vtilissima op[er]a co[m]me[n]c[i]ato ... opifitio del prudente homo Paganino de Paganini da Brescia. Nella excelsa cita de vinegia ... Negli a[n]ni de nostra salute M.cccc.lxliiij. adi. 10. de noue[m]bre.
Includes the earliest known treatise on bookkeeping, and is "the first great general work on mathematics printed." cf. Smith, D.E. Rara arithmetica, p. 54-57.
Semi-Gothic type; initials; first page of text in red and black within ornamental border.
Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 00005.
British Library [IB.23272] London England enk.
In Italian ; introductory matter in Latin.
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, [1974]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 5).
Series
Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 5
Making of the modern world
Repository
Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

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