Mathematics, metrology, and model contracts : a codex from late antique business education (P. Math.) /
Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts is a comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex. The codex contains mathematical problems, metrological tables and model contracts. Given the nature of the contents, the format and quality of the Greek, the editors conclude that the codex...
| Other Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
| Language Notes: | In English with text in Greek with parallel English translation. |
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New York :
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and New York University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | ISAW papers.
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| Summary: | Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts is a comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex. The codex contains mathematical problems, metrological tables and model contracts. Given the nature of the contents, the format and quality of the Greek, the editors conclude that the codex most likely belonged to a student in a school devoted to training business agents and similar professionals. The editors present here the first full scholarly edition of the text, with complete discussions of the provenance, codicology and philology of the surviving manuscript. They also provide extensive notes and illustrations for the mathematical problems and model contracts, as well as historical commentary on what this text reveals about late antique numeracy, literacy, education and vocational training in what we would now see as business, law, and administration. |
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| Physical Description: | 193 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479801763 1479801763 |