Ars artium

sive ars magna cabalistica

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

50 leaves : paper ; 375 x 260 (322 x 197) mm bound to 385 x 270 mm; Binding: Contemporary boards (Zacour-Hirsch).; Decoration: Schematic drawings dealing with algebra or mathematics in ink throughout; manicule (f. 7v); large schematic drawing of the eleven Sephirot in the tree of life symbol, with both Hebrew and Roman letters, topped with a small sphere divided into nine sections, named from A to I (f. 38v).; Foliation: Paper, 50; [ii], 1-45, [46-48]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Last three leaves blank.; Latin, with some Hebrew throughout.; Layout: Written in 37 long lines; ruled in lead.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in Germany in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.; Table of contents: 1. f.3v: De huius partis divisione praefationis loco studioso lectori apposita.; Table of contents: 10. f.16r-19r: Algebricae multiplicationis, tam literalis, quam numericae methodiis incomplexarum, et complexarum quantitatum earumque potestatum.; Table of contents: 11. f.19r-24r: Divisio quantitatum algebricarum incomplexarum, et complexarum.; Table of contents: 12. f.24r-32r: De rationibus, seu habitudinibus aequationum, et proportionum pertractantur.; Table of contents: 13. f.32v-37v: Tabularum usus declaratur, nec non et ipse tabluae inscribuntur.; Table of contents: 14. f.37v-39r: Altera breviorque responsionum obtinendarum methodus inscribitur.; Table of contents: 15. f.39r-45r: Exempla rotius operis delineantur coronidis loco in gratiam studiosorum.; Table of contents: 2. f.3v-5v: De quaesiti dictionum numero ratio datur.; Table of contents: 3. f.6r-6v: De sphericae orbitae canalorum ratione, ubi pariter semicirculorum divisiones, brancarum constructiones, misteriumque totius figure complectitur.; Table of contents: 4. f.6v-8r: Repetitionis duarum radicum causa quae sit.; Table of contents: 5. f.8r-9v: Cur ex orbita numeri spiraliter sint accipiendi, ut postea in ciphra plano ordine inscribantur, deque miisteriis occultis earumdem operationum, cuius causa responsiones procreantur.; Table of contents: 6. f.9v-11r: Quare radices cruce et signatae Haebraica non admittat, ubi de responsionum eiusdem brevitate, aliqua non superflua pertractantur.; Table of contents: 7. f.11r-15r: Algebra quid sit, et quotuplex, subiectum rationes, et alia ad eius usum necessaria ante regulas demonstrantur.; Table of contents: 8. f.15r-15v: Reductio literalis et numerica quantitatum complexarum algebricarum ad suos simpliciores expressiones, nec non incomplexarum.; Table of contents: 9. f.15v-16r: Subductionis algebricae tam literalis, quam numericae forma quantitatum incomplexarum, et complexarum.; Title from title page (f. ii recto).; Watermark: 2 watermarks are used throughout: the initials F.C., and a diamond with two circles attached to either side.

sive ars magna cabalistica

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

80 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 335 x 225 (285 x 188) mm in folder 350 x 245 mm + 2 notes; Binding: Not bound but wrapped in a contemporary (late 17th- or 18th-century) leather folder (perhaps once the leather covers of the binding of another volume), blind-tooled, with a flap extending from the back to fold over the front decorated with an undulating edge.; Collation: Paper, 80; 1-12⁶ 13⁸; [i], 1-34 (Part 1), [i-ii], 1-42 (Part 2), [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Catchword lower right verso on most leaves.; Decoration: Diagrams and tables throughout; a few manicules of different readers (f. 3r, 17r (with later note), 32r, 43v, 45r).; Latin, with some Hebrew characters.; Layout: Written in 40-41 long lines; possibly ruled using a frame pressed into the page with pricking along the side margins.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Probably written in Italy between 1690 and 1750 (based on similar watermarks; Les Enluminures).; Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Watermarks: Fleur-de-lis enclosed in a circle surmounted by a smaller circle (similar to Heawood Watermarks, no. 1573 (1752); see nos. 1566-1573 (Italy, 1690-1752)).