Sūma de arithmetica geometria proportioni [et] proportionalita
Contributors: Paganini, Paganino, printer
Series: Incunabula -- VE 28; Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 5; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Paganino de Paganini da Brescia
Published: 1494
Place of publication: Vinegia [Venice]
Language: ita
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Arithmetic; Early works to 1900; Mathematics; Early works to 1800; Geometry; Ratio and proportion; Bookkeeping
Other titles: Summa de arithmetica geometria proportioni [et] proportionalita.; Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proportionalità
Notes: 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.

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.

In Italian ; introductory matter in Latin.