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University of Pennsylvania LJS 232: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità, Loose note 1, Side 1
This is an image of Loose note 1, Side 1 from University of Pennsylvania LJS 232: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità, by Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565, Strozzi, Carlo, b. 1517, from Florence, Italy, dated to after 1539.
LJS 232 is a treatise by Benedetto Varchi on proportion as the basis for rithmomachia, a mathematical game played on a chessboard with pieces that each have a shape and a number; a dialogue written by Carlo di Ruberto Strozzi, in which Cosimo Rucellai, who introduced the game to Benedetto Varchi, teaches the rules to Strozzi and Jacopo di Piero Vettori; and other notes on the game. Later unrelated notes and pen trials on leaves before and after main texts.
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University of Pennsylvania LJS 232: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità, Loose note 1, Side 1
This is an image of Loose note 1, Side 1 from University of Pennsylvania LJS 232: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità, by Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565, Strozzi, Carlo, b. 1517, from Florence, Italy, dated to after 1539.
LJS 232 is a treatise by Benedetto Varchi on proportion as the basis for rithmomachia, a mathematical game played on a chessboard with pieces that each have a shape and a number; a dialogue written by Carlo di Ruberto Strozzi, in which Cosimo Rucellai, who introduced the game to Benedetto Varchi, teaches the rules to Strozzi and Jacopo di Piero Vettori; and other notes on the game. Later unrelated notes and pen trials on leaves before and after main texts.
Access this manuscript at openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/LJSchoenbergManuscripts/html....
OPenn is a website that offers easy access to free cultural works from Penn Libraries and other institutions. Access these collections and learn more at openn.library.upenn.edu.
Metadata is copyright ©2015 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.