Lorenzo the Magnificent's Treatise on Arithmetic

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he manuscript commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici for educating his son Giovanni, later Pope Leo X, in the arts of Banking and Commerce. The House of Medici was the most powerful financial institution in the XVth Century, creating the first world-wide holding company.

Characteristics:

• Containing 240 pages of 170x110 mm. parchment.
• It has 230 gold-leaf miniatures, illustrated by the inspired XVth Century artist Boccardino.
• Hand bound in leather.
• The text of the manuscript has been attributed to Filippo Calandri on the basis of an incunabula published in Florence in 1491.

A Documentation Kit containing 2 sample pages, in the original size, from Lorenzo the Magnificent's Treatise on Arithmetic is available for $US75-.

An Art Book is also available for $US140-.

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