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An Example: Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorismi, the Short Version

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In 1307, one otherwise unidentified Jacopo da Firenze (“from Florence”), at the time living in Montpellier in Provence, wrote a Tractatus algorismi. After the Latin title and an equally Latin incipit, the language of the work is Tuscan.

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Høyrup, J. (2024). An Example: Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorismi, the Short Version. In: The World of the Abbaco. Frontiers in the History of Science. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25164-1_2

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