[MATHEMATICS] UNIQUE 18TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MATHEMATICAL MANUSCRIPT ON CONIC SECTIONS. STAMPA,...

[MATHEMATICS] UNIQUE 18TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MATHEMATICAL MANUSCRIPT ON CONIC SECTIONS.
STAMPA, JOSEPHO [GIUSEPPE] MARIA. 1666-1734. Autograph Mathematical Manuscript in Italian and Latin, "De Sectionibus Conicis. Libris Quator," 8vo (225 x 170 mm), books 1-3: 254 pages, numbered in manuscript; book 4: 74 unnumbered pages; addendum: 12 pp; 41 leaves of finely drawn mathematical plates, folding; Italian, early 18th-century. Recent parchment over marbled paper boards.
Provenance: Somascan Collegio Gallio, Como, Italy (in Argelati, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Mediolanensium 2, Milan, 1745, col. 2175-2178, Stampa ms X); "Amabile Morandi," Varese (stamp to self-title leaf).

FINELY ILLUSTRATED MATHEMATICAL MANUSCRIPT FROM FR. JOSEPHO MARIA STAMPA. Stampa was a Somascan monk, historian, mathematician and poet. Among his many published works, only one, Ludus serio expensus ... nec non de Arithmetica progressione tractatus (Milan, 1700) is a mathematical consideration of the Genoese lottery, the first of its kind. His abiding interest in mathematics however is well documented in his letters, as well as in the many unpublished manuscripts he left upon his death in 1734. Filippo Argelati's Bibliotheca Scriptorum Mediolanensium records 29 works by Stampa, 6 of which are mathematical in nature, including "De Sectionibus Conicis. Libris Quator." Of the manuscripts catalogued by Argelati, we trace no other surviving copies.