TAILIEUCHUNG - The Earliest Arithmetics in English

THE number of English arithmetics before the sixteenth century is very small. This is hardly to be wondered at, as no one requiring to use even the simplest operations of the art up to the middle of the fifteenth century was likely to be ignorant of Latin, in which language there were several treatises in a considerable number of manuscripts, as shown by the quantity of them still in existence. Until modern commerce was fairly well established, few persons required more arithmetic than addition and subtraction, and even in the thirteenth century, scientific treatises addressed to advanced students contemplated. | The Earliest Arithmetics in English EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT STEELE LONDON PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY BY HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AMEN CORNER . 4. 1922. INTRODUCTION The number of English arithmetics before the sixteenth century is very small. This is hardly to be wondered at as no one requiring to use even the simplest operations of the art up to the middle of the fifteenth century was likely to be ignorant of Latin in which language there were several treatises in a considerable number of manuscripts as shown by the quantity of them still in existence. Until modern commerce was fairly well established few persons required more arithmetic than addition and subtraction and even in the thirteenth century scientific treatises addressed to advanced students contemplated the likelihood of their not being able to do simple division. On the other hand the study of astronomy necessitated from its earliest days as a science considerable skill and accuracy in computation not only in the calculation of astronomical tables but in their use a knowledge of which latter was fairly common from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. The arithmetics in English known to me are 1 Bodl. 790 G. VII. 2653 f. 146-154 15th c. inc. Of angrym ther be IX figures in numbray . . . A mere unfinished fragment only getting as far as Duplation. 2 Camb. Univ. LI. IV. 14 III. f. 121-142 15th c. inc. Al maner of thyngis that prosedeth ffro the frist begynnyng . . . 3 Fragmentary passages or diagrams in Sloane 213 f. 120-3 a fourteenth-century counting board Egerton 2852 f. 5-13 Harl. 218 f. 147 and 4 The two MSS. here printed Eg. 2622 f. 136 and Ashmole 396 f. 48. All of these as the language shows are of the fifteenth century. The Crafte of NOMBRYNGE is one of a large number of scientific treatises mostly in Latin bound up together as Egerton MS. 2622 in the British Museum Library. It measures 7 X 5 29-30 lines to the page in a rough hand. The .

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