Euclidis Elementa

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0117 MS/28
Held at	: Royal Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ ›
Full title	: Euclidis Elementa
Date(s)	: 13th century
Level of description	: Sub-fonds
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Abelard of Bath
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

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Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Latin

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

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Archival Information

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

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

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Description Notes

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.