B chapter.indd - Charles Babbage Institute - University of Minnesota

The final process of seeing it through the press was done
by his younger brother.
While Becmann and his brother are known to have
published other works on law, this book on the calculation
and legal aspects of interest is not known in any other
collection. It includes a discussion of both simple and
compound interest as well as tables and formulas for
calculating and the use of logarithms.
124
Illustrations available:
Title page
Interest table
B 121
Bede Venerabilis (672/3–735)
De computo per gestum digitorum. Idem de loquela.
Idem de ratione unciarum.
b/w: Probus, Marcus Valerius; De notis Romanor[um]
ex codice manuscripto castigatior, auctiorque,
quam unquam antea, factus.
b/w: Petrus, Deacon; De eadem re ad conradum
primum imp. Ro[manorum].
b/w: Alabaldus, Demetrius; De minutiis. Idem de
ponderibus. Idem de mensuris.
b/w: Leges XII tabularum, leges pontificiæ
Ro[manorum]. Variæ verborum conceptiones,
quibus antiqui cuz in rebus sacris, tum prophanis
uterentur, sub titulo de Ritibus Romanorum
collectæ. Phlegontis Trallani epistola de moribus
Ægytiorum. Aureliani Cæsaris epistola de officio
tribuni militum. Iscriptiones antiquæ variis in
locis repertæ, atq[ue] aliæ, q[uam] quae in
Erwin Tomash Library
Bede Venerabilis Bede Venerabilis
B 120
Romano codice continentur. Hæc omnia nunc
primum edita.
Year: 1525
Place: Venice
Publisher: Joh. Tacuino
Edition: 1st
Language: Latin
Figures: main title in red and black
Binding: stamped vellum over wooden boards
Pagination: ff. [4], XXIIII
Collation: a 4 A–C 8
Size: 218x149 mm
Reference: Ada CBCE, P2122; Smi Rara, p. 140
The Venerable Bede (Beda) was an English monk who
spent his entire life (from the age of 7) in a monastery
near what is now Newcastle upon Tyne. Although he
never traveled more than fifty miles from his base, he
became one of the great scholars of his day and wrote
extensively on every major subject, even writing a tourist
guide to sites in the Holy Land and other places. Bede’s
monastery seems to have been the gathering place for
many. It attracted people from around Europe, Ireland
and even North Africa, all of whom added to the rich
resources available to Bede.
Volume title page, B 121
Colophon, B 121