Detail View: LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection: Writing tables with stylus
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Digital Image File Name:
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6596
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Source Call Number:
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V.a.480
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Image Title:
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Writing tables with stylus. Manuscript, ca. 1580
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Source Title:
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Writing tables with stylus
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Physical Description:
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front cover
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Digital Image Type:
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FSL collection
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HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Title (Hamnet):
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Writing tables with stylus [manuscript].
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Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
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[Dresden? ;
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Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
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1580?]
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Physical Description (Hamnet):
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2 fols. (paper), 24 fols. (coated vellum); 2 fols. (paper)
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Formerly Folger MS ADD 1156.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Includes, in Italian, a list of legal documents (with items dated 1630, 1645, 1663), mathematical instructions and problems, and drawings. Most of the writing is in ink. Evidence of erasure on some leaves. 338 is written at the top of front board and verso of second front endleaf. The contemporary calfskin binding is block-stamped in gold with gold tooling, sewn on four double-raised cords wih fore-edge flap. Silver clasps held together with the copper stylus. Dresden?, ca.1580 is taken from Sothebys (London) catalogue, 7 November 2002, lot 41.
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Call Number (Hamnet):
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V.a.480
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