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StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	MS GRAVES/18
Title	Mathematical Treatise
Date	c1500
Description	Manuscript dating from the late 15th century-early 16th century: Algorismus Novus de integris compendiose studioseque sine figurarum more ytalico [Italico] delectionem compilatus. Tables and calculations in text.
Extent	1 volume containing 19 leaves
CustodialHistory	The 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 1089. Cutting from the sales catalogue "Katalog des Antiquarischen Lagers von T. O. Weigel, 1865" describing the manuscript pasted inside front cover.
Acquisition	Graves' library was bequeathed to University College London in 1870.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAids	Dorothy 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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