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w: Anselm, In omnes Pauli …
126
Year: 1537
Place: Cologne
Publisher: Johannes Prael for P. Quentel
Edition: 1st (collected)
Language: Latin
Binding: Flemish blindstamped over wooden boards, rolls of
medallion heads and foliage forming a double panel;
clasps and catches; corner bosses
Pagination: ff. [14], 18, [6], 30 (misnumbered 19 as 21, 24 as
20), XXXI–CXXVI (misnumbered 35 as 25, 37 as 27,
38 as 138, 45 as 46, 53 as 46, 54 as 49, 60 as 54, 78
as76), [4]
Collation: A 4 B 6 C 4 D–G 6 a–x 6 y 4
Size: 310x200 mm
Reference: Ada CBCE, #A1174; Zin GBAL, #1657; Smi Rara,
p. 159; Ada CBCE, #B448
This edition of Bede’s work on finger numerals (De
computu) is identical to that appearing in the 1529 edition.
After this very short section, the rest of the volume
contains works by Bede on arithmetic, astronomy, the
calendar and chronology.
Illustrations available:
Title page for the volume (Anselm title page)
Title page for Bede’s work
Complete text of De computu in two images
Colophon of Bede’s work
Bede Venerabilis (672/3–735)
See Artabasda, Nicolaus of Smyrna; Græci
Mathematici ΕΚΦΡΑΣΙC numerorum notationis per
gestum digitorum, 1614.
Erwin Tomash Library
Bede Venerabilis Bedwell, William
B 123
B 124
Bedwell, William (1561–1632), translator and editor
De numeris geometricis. Of the nature and proprieties
of geometricall numbers. First written by Lazarus
Schonerus, and now Englished, enlarged and illustrated
with divers and sundry tables and observations
concerning the measuring of plaines and solids; all
teaching the fabricke, demonstration and use of a
singular instrument, or rular, long since invented and
perfitted by Thomas Bedwell Esquire.
b/w: Digges, Leonard; Tectonicon: briefly shewing
the exact measuring, and speedy reckoning all
manner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples,
pillers, globes, &c.
Year: 1614
Place: London
Publisher: Richard Field
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Figures: 1 large letterpress folding table
Binding: modern vellum
Pagination: pp. [viii], 82
Collation: A–L 4 M 1
Size: 179x131 mm
Bede title page, B 123
Often considered the first English translation of Lazarus
Schoner’s treatise on the Greek theory of numbers (first
published as an appendix to his edition of Peter Ramus,
Arithmetices libri duo, Frankfurt, 1586), in fact it is an
enlarged, and rewritten, version of this material rather than
a translation. Bedwell’s motive was to provide a basis for
the explanation of the use of the trigonicum, which was
a ruler invented by his uncle, Thomas Bedwell, about
forty years earlier. This ruler was similar to instruments