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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 232. Florence, Italy, 1539. Treatise by Benedetto Varchi on proportion as the basis for rithmomachia, a mathematical game played on a chessboard with pieces that each have a shape and a number; a dialogue written by Carlo di Ruberto Strozzi, in which Cosimo Rucellai, who introduced the game to Benedetto Varchi, teaches the rules to Strozzi and Jacopo di Piero Vettori; and other notes on the game. Later unrelated notes and pen trials on leaves before and after main texts. Damage and bleed-through due to oxidation on many leaves.<p>Penn Libraries Catalog: &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948181893503681">https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948181893503681</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;go to Franklin&lt;/a&gt;</p>
<br>Subjects: Rithmomachia (Game) Codices 16th century; Mathematical recreations--Early works to 1800 Diagrams Diagrams; Dialogues Italy; Treatises Italian; Manuscripts, Italian--16th century Paper; Manuscripts, Latin--16th century Mathematics; Manuscripts, Renaissance Treatise</div>
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Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565</div>
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