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.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Goff, L-315.

ISTC, il00315000.

Smith, D.E. Rara arithmetica, p. 54-57.

BMC V, p. 457 (IB.23272)

Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 5.

British Library [IB.23272] London England enk.

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

In Italian ; introductory matter in Latin.

Bookseller's label on front pastedown: C.E. Rappaport, Libreria-Antiquaria, Roma.

Minor marginalia and underscoring near front of text.

Contemporary vellum binding; marks of a clasp on front and back covers, clasp no longer present.