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Reference Number MS GRAVES/14
TitleSenfft's 'Geometry'
Date1700
DescriptionManuscript volume, 1700, containing Johannes Henricus Senfft's 'Geometrica Theoretica: compendium geometriae elementaris & thereticae', with ink diagrams.
Extent1 volume containing 144 leaves
CustodialHistoryThe manuscript formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. Formerly Graves 2936. Other pressmarks: 128.a.24; 55.6.2.
AcquisitionGraves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Related MaterialUniversity College London Special Collections also holds Senfft's 'Compendium Arithmeticae' (Ref: MS GRAVES 13).
FindingAidsDorothy K Coveney, 'A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London' (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
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