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CATALOGUE. 131

Rabdologi,|Sev Nvmerationis|Per Virgulas|Libri Dvo:|Cum Appendice de expeditissi-|simo Mvltiplicationis| promptvario.|Quibus accessit & Arithmetic|Localis Liber vnvs.|Authore & Inventore Ioanne|Nepero, Barone Mer-|chistonii, &c.|Scoto.|Edinbvrgi,|Excudebat Andreas Hart, 1617.|

12°. Size $5 5⁄8$ x $3 1⁄4$ inches.&para;1$1$, Title.&para;1$2$, blank. &para;2$1$–&para;4$1$, 5 pages, “Illustrissimo Viro Alexandro Setonio Fermelinoduni Comiti, Fyvi, & Vrqvharti Domino, &c. Supremo Regni Scoti Cancellario. S.”, signed “Ioannes Neperus Merchistonii Baro.”&para;4$2$, Verses, viz.:&mdash; “Avthori Dignissimo.”, 4 lines, unsigned; “Lectori Rabdologi.”, 4 lines, signed “Patricivs Sandḛvs”; and “Ad Lectorem.”, 6 lines, signed “Andreas Ivnivs.”&para;5$1$–&para;6$1$, 3 pages, “Elenchvs Capitvm, et vsvvm totivs operis.”&para;6$2$, two lines in centre of page.A1$1$–B9$2$, pp. 1-42, “Radbdologi Liber Primvs De usu Virgvlarvm numeratricium in genere.”B10$1$–D9$2$, pp. 43–90, “Radbdologi Liber Secvndvs De usu Virgularum Numeratricium in Geometricis & Mechanicis officio Tabularum.”D10$1$–E8$2$, pp. 91–112, “De Expeditissimo Multiplicationis Promptvario Appendix.”, the “Prfatio” occupying the first page. E9$1$–G5$2$, pp. 113–154, “Arithmetic Localis, que in Scacchi abaco exercetur, Liber unus.”, the “Prfatio” occupying the first two pages.G6 blank.

Signatures. &para; in six + A to F in twelve + G in six = 84 leaves.

Paging. 12 + 154 numbered + 2 = 168 pages.

There are 4 folding plates to face pages 101, 105, 106, and 130, which, with those on pages 6, 7, 8, 94, and 95, are copperplate.

Errors in Paging. None.

In one copy belonging to the Edinburgh University Library the signature B5 is printed in error A5, but in their other copy it is correct.

Libraries. Adv. Ed.; Sig. Ed.; Un. Ed. (2); Un. Gl. (2); Brit. Mus. Lon.; Un. Col. Lon.; Roy. Soc. Lon.; Bodl. Oxf. (5); Un. Camb.; Trin, Col. Camb.; Trin. Col. Dub.; Kön. Berlin; Stadt. Breslau; Un. Breslau; Kön. Öff. Dresden; Un. Halle; Un. Leiden; K. Hof u. Staats. München; Astor, New York; Nat. Paris; Un. Utrecht;

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