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Euclidis Elementa


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/28

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Euclidis Elementa

Date(s): 13th century

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Abelard of Bath

CONTEXT

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CONTENT

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Latin translation attributed to Abelard of Bath, of Euclid's geometry ending imperfectly near the beginning of book 15 in the propsition 'intra propsitum cubum corpus habens iiij bases triangulas equalium laterum resignare'. Written in England

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

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Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Codex membranaceus

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

MS/15 also has notes written in the same hand which writes marginalia in MS/28.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


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Geometry | Mathematics

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