New York, The Library of George A. Plimpton, Columbia University, 195 Old shelfmarks Nr. 15 (Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni coll., cat., 1862). - Nr. 178 (Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni coll., cat., 1892). - Nr. 152 (sale Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni, cat., Rome, 1898, I).- Scribe(s) "alpha" (1-161) Sigs. a-t; "beta" (162-169) Sig. u; "gamma" (170-81) Sig. y-z | (172r-181r): Johannes Baptista de Sancta Eufemia of Faenza Century 15 Precise date 1475 (ca.) | 1475-1478 | 1478 Method of Dating d Place of origin Italy | Italy (Faenza) Language Italian | Latin Owner’s notes (174r, 181v): Mario Bagnaci Previous owners Owned ca. 1700 by Marco Bagnaci; Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni coll. (cat., 1862, no. 15; cat., 1892, no. 178); his sale (Rome, 1898, I, no. 152), 1936 from George Plimpton to Columbia Composite ms. 3 parts (1-161, 162-169, 170-181) Material Membr. | Membr. (Mostly on palimpsest vellum, the earlier writing being 14th c. accounts) Height × width 222 x 172 | 225 x 175 | 230 x 180 No. of leaves 181 | 183 | 184 Numbering ff. num. ant. 1-181 (144-181 num. mod. 145-182) Gatherings A^10 B^8-H^8 I^10 K^8-P^8 Q^10 R^12(-1) S^8-V^8 W^4 | A^10 B-H^8 I^10 K-P^8 Q^10 R^11 S-X^8 Y^4 Binding leaves ii + 181 | iii + 183 (num. 1, I, II) Cover Original oak boards and leather | Original oak boards covered with dark brown blind-stamped leather. Remains of clasps at outer edges and of metal bosses on corners and center of covers | Wooden boards with antique tooled leather, marks of metal bosses and clasps Condition (144) missing | Spine damaged and missing at top. (1-161): Vellum is palimpsest and badly warped; brown wash around outside of 10r. - (170-181): Some leaves are palimpsest No. of hands 3 Type of writing "alpha": a very irregular corsiva cancellaresca. - "beta": a neat Gothic bookhand. - "gamma": an irregular corsiva cancellaresca | Italian cursive script of the 15th century, with abbreviations. The text is written, for the most part, on palimpsest vellum, the under-writing being apparently Italian accounts or legal documents of the 14th century No. of columns (1-161): 1 col. - (162-169): 1 col. - (170-81): 2 cols. | 1 col. (11v) Width of columns (1-161) 140 x 110 mm. approx. - (162-169): 150-160 x 100 mm. - (170-181): 150 x 60 mm. from 172-181 | Script-space (11v): 140 x 115 Lineation (1-161): 25 lines. - (162-169): 40-50 lines. - (170-181): ? | 26 lines (11v); also tabular Ink (1-161): brown ink with paragraph marks alternately in red and blue, initials and capitals lined in red. - (162-169): brown ink with paragraph marks in red, capitals lined in red. - (170-181): brown ink with titles in red, initials and paragraph marks alternately red and blue, capitals lined in red Initials etc. (1-161): some marginal diagrams and drawings on 130v-141r, some outlined in red; 5-line decorated red on blue initial on 10r. - (162-169): initial on 162r illuminated. - (170-181): initials and paragraph marks | With catchwords. Rubricated throughout in red and blue Decorations (1-161): 5-line decorated red on blue initial on 10r, tables on 3v-5v, 136v-137v, 148r-v outlined in red; calendar circles on 154v-155r outlined in red. - (162-169): initial on 162r illuminated; many geometrical diagrams in margins. | On (10r) is a large decorated initial S, blue on a red ground Printed catalogs Cat. Baldassarre Boncompagni (1862), no. 15 | Cat. Baldassarre Boncompagni (1892), no. 178 | Cat. Rome (1898, I), no. 152 | De Ricci, Seymour/ Wilson, W.J.: Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in The United States and Canada, II (New York 1937), 1789 | Ives, S.A.: Corrigenda and Addenda to the Descriptions of the Plimpton Mss. as recorded in the Ricci Census, in: Speculum, XVII (1942), 43 | Van Egmond, W.: Practical Mathematics in the Italian Renaissance: A Catalog of Italian Abbacus Manuscripts and Printed Books to 1600 (= Supplemento agli Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Monografia N. 4, Firenze 1980), 262-64 Publ. descriptions Boncompagni, B.: Intorno ad un trattato d'aritmetica stampato nel 1479, in: Atti dell'Academia Pontifica de'Nuovi Lincei, 16 (1862-63), 512 | revised edition of Boncompagni 1862-63 published separately: Tipografia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche, Rom 1866, 396, 672 | Smith, D.E.: Rara arithmetica (1908), 447-9, facs. Facsimiles Smith, D.E.: Rara arithmetica (1908), 447-9, facs. Source Columbia University Library, N.N. | De Ricci/Wilson (1937) | Ives (1942) | van Egmond (1980) Type of source art. | cat. | ts. pvt. notes Work 1Title (standard) (av) Three sonnets; (br) Solar daylight tables for Sep-Dec; (bv) five poems; (cr) accounts; (cv) astronomical tables | Series of poems Incipit (av) Sempre se dice ch'um fa danno a cento / ... Io veçço tutto 'l mondo si inretrosito / ... si fati la scientia o la fortuna. - (bv) Non he si bel vixo in tuto il mondo / ... Cussi ti vedo quando som lontano /... Dalla mia parte ti() carta biancha / ... Chi dara piu conforto aolle mie pene/ ... O falsi ghabadei, o colli torti Language Italian Folio no. a-b | av-cv Other passages In Vinexia 1^o sazo e .3.1. g., siche a la nostra on. in F(a)enza ne vanno sic sazzi a l'unza e 1^o sazzo intordi (?) 1/6 d'unza Work 2Title (standard) Monetary tariff | Record of exchange on the bank of Florence Date & place 1479 a di 26 di febrero in cecha de Fiorenza | 1479 Feb 26 Language Italian Folio no. 1r Work 3Title (standard) 3 Italian sonnets | Inhaltsverzeichnis | Taula de la continentia de questo presente libro Language Italian Folio no. 1v Rubric Tabula de la continentia de questo presente libro. Work 4Title (standard) Drawing of palm with notations for calendar reckoning and list of religious holidays giving Easter as 22 March | Figura di compoto manuale | Solar ascensions for September - December Language Italian Folio no. 2r Work 5Title (standard) 4 Italian poems Language Italian Subject 1 Varia Folio no. 2v Prolog Concio sia chosa che tutte quelle chose le quale l'umana generatione de questo seculo sanno e possono sapere Work 6Title (standard) Miscellaneous accounts and calendarial tables Incipit Hogni figura per si medesima significa numero e numero debbi intendere da 1^o infino a nove Language Italian Folio no. 3r-5r Tables Calendarial tables Work 7Author standard Giambattista di Michele da Santa Eufemia | Giovanni di Lucha Additional names Giovanni Baptista da Santa Eufemia Title (standard) Arithmetica | Libro sopra arismetricha | Trattato d'aritmeticha | Treatise on commercial arithmetic Contents (2v) Prolog; (3r-9) Tavole d'arismeticha; (10r-) Text | Tables, business problems (10v); "rotti" (22r); business problems (42v); "radice" (127r); "rasone de perticha" (geom.) (129v); "taula de semi" (136v-137v); measure problems (138r); recreational problems (145r); calendar (153r) Incipit (10r) (S)empre Adomando laiuto dedie Et/ masi | (10r) Sempre adomando l'aiuto de dio e masimamente in questo principio de questo libre | (2v) Incominciamo questo presente tractato Elquale e detto Algorismus. perche questa sciencia fu principalmente tuate in arabia (...) De le cui Specie se netunno nove cioe. Numeratio. Additio. subtractio. Mediatio. Duplatio. multiplicatio. divisio. progressio Et radicum extractio Incipit 2 SEmpre adomando laito dedie Et masimamente In questo principio de questo libro El quale libro sera tutto sopra la quanta Scientia la quale si chiamata Arsmetricha (10r) Language Italian Subject 1 Mathematik Folio no. 1r-154r | 1v-154v | 2v-155v | 5v-157r Prolog (2v) Concio sia chosa che tutte quelle chose le quale l'umana generatione de questo seculo sanno e possono sapere | COncio sia chosa che tutte quelle chose le quale lumina generatione de questo seculo sano e possono sapere Other passages (...) (10r) laquel opera ho comminciata mi Giovanni Baptista fiolo fui de lo Egregio doctore de le arte e medicina m^o Michele da S^a Eufemia Citadino de fenza (...) | (10r) la qual opera ho cominciata me Gio(v)anni Baptista fiolo fui de lo egregio doctore dele arte e medecina m^o Michele da S(ant)a Eufemia citadino de F(a)enza della cs Terencio per mie successori Tables (3r-9) Tavole d'arismeticha Additional copies Appears to be the same text as USA New York, Columbia University Library, Plimptons Ms. 172 by Giovanni di Maestro Luca | Based on Plimpton 172, Plimpton 192 Work 8Title (standard) Calendario e rasone de la luna Incipit Tutte le lune se voltano, l'una de di e l'altra de nocte Language Italian Folio no. 155r-161v | 156r- Other passages Calendar of months (156r-161v) Work 9Title (standard) A computus and calendar | Computus and calendar | Kalendarium Language Italian Folio no. 154r-161r | 157r-162r | 157v-164r Work 10Author standard Thomas Bradwardinus Title (standard) Geometria | Geometria speculativa | Treatise of geometry Incipit Nan (sic!) et posterioris est ordinis et passiones numerorum magnitudinibus Language Latin Folio no. 162r-169r | 162r-169v | 163r-170r | 165r-172r Rubric Cie geumetria assecutiva arismetrice Explicit est figura plana linea recta enim / cemtrum cadentem. Work 11Title (standard) Table of movable feasts | Table of movable feasts from 1475 to 1580 | Table of religious holidays for 1475-1580 | Tavole de Pasca Language Italian Folio no. 170r-171r | 170r-171v | 171r-172 | 173r-174r Tables Table of movable feasts | Table of movable feasts from 1475 to 1580 | Tavole de Pasca Work 12Author standard Giovanni Boccaccio Scribe(s) Giovanni Baptista da Santa Eufemia (cop.) | Johannes Baptista de Sancta Eufemia of Faenza Title (ms.) Plantus gloriosae vergine Marie Title (standard) Planctus gloriosae virginis Mariae | Planctus Virginis de morte Filii sui (exc.) Contents Ends after line 3 of Chapter IX Incipit Prohemium autoris. / Ave regina virgo gloriosa / che de dio padre ti chiamasti ancilla / Date & place 1478 Jul 7 Language Italian Subject 1 Varia Additional remarks Poem Folio no. 172r-181r | 172r-181v | 173r-182 | 175r-184r Rubric Plantus gloriose v(ergine) Marie de morte d(e) n(ostro) yhu x^i filii sui editus ut dicitur a d. Io.^e Bocatio florenteno, scriptus per me Io. Bap(tis)tam de Santa Eufemia de Faventia 1478 die vij iulii quam raptim Explicit Movete fiumi verme vostro corso
