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Geometry from BL Burn 275, f. 293

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Geometry from BL Burn 275, f. 293

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Historiated initial with a woman with a set-square and dividers teaching a group of students (perhaps the personification of Geometry) at the beginning of Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath, and in the margin, a man shooting an arrow at a boar, with a dog. Image taken from f. 293 of Scholastic miscellany (see Notes for contents). Written in Latin.

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1300 - 1500
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priscian cicero and pseudo cicero boethius aristotle euclid adelard of bath ptolemy translated by gerard of cremona
priscian cicero and pseudo cicero boethius aristotle euclid adelard of bath ptolemy translated by gerard of cremona