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
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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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Open
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Codex membranaceus
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ALLIED MATERIALS
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MS/15 also has notes written in the same hand which writes marginalia in MS/28.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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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.