Arithmetique, calligraphic manual on the practical applications of the subject, in French, manuscript on paper [France, 16 April 1774] 208 leaves, evidently complete, with single column of 24 long lines of a good italic hand, larger calligraphic script in faded red for rubrics, some line fillers in same, sums set within text columns, a few pages with ink split on them, some ink burn (but with little affect to text), overall in good condition, 285 by 220mm.; contemporary brown leather pasteboards, remains of green silk ties, edges of binding somewhat rubbed and slightly loose in places This impressively large volume was copied for a student of a priest named Sieur Perie, perhaps the Barthe Remi who wrote his name on an endleaf. Inscriptions on the first and last leaves show that work on it was begun on 5 October 1773, and it was completed on 16 April the following year. It was presumably some form of graduation award, completed as part of his scribal and accountancy studies.
Arithmetique, calligraphic manual on the practical applications of the subject, in French, manuscript on paper [France, 16 April 1774] 208 leaves, evidently complete, with single column of 24 long lines of a good italic hand, larger calligraphic script in faded red for rubrics, some line fillers in same, sums set within text columns, a few pages with ink split on them, some ink burn (but with little affect to text), overall in good condition, 285 by 220mm.; contemporary brown leather pasteboards, remains of green silk ties, edges of binding somewhat rubbed and slightly loose in places This impressively large volume was copied for a student of a priest named Sieur Perie, perhaps the Barthe Remi who wrote his name on an endleaf. Inscriptions on the first and last leaves show that work on it was begun on 5 October 1773, and it was completed on 16 April the following year. It was presumably some form of graduation award, completed as part of his scribal and accountancy studies.
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