Excerpt from Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini Boetii De Institutione Arithmetica Libri Duo, De Institutione Musica Libri Quinque: Accedit Geometria Quae Fertur BoetiiTamen statim, si logi posset dirimer0t codex Vero nousis palimps0stus 38, in que verum Iioetium latere putat Blume Humaniuime et liberalissime Ilen compagni, illustris ille rerum mathematicarum fautor eifecit ut codex ille diligentissime inspicere tur sed adoo difficilis lectu inventus est nt praeter admodnm panca verba nihil transcribi ex eo peanet. Donec igitur aut acrioms oculi, quod vix crmliderim, aut instructier ars, quod fieri posso nemo negaverit, in communem usum protnlerint, quae Illume investi gsvit, nihil aliud restat, nisi nt ca quae fertur lloetii geometria, edatnr quam artem geometri cam auctorem nominano tostantur loci qum in pag. 484 sub voce ars attnli. Quae cum per se nullius fere pretii sit, maximi momenti ad res arithmoticas (acta est antiquissimis, quae quantum soimus in nostris litteris exstant, vestigiis eorum signorum, quibus nunc numeros describinms. Itaque munem impendi operani ut Carnutensi quoque codice ipse nti possem, neque tamen fieri potuit, cum legibus non licerot, codieem illum ex Francogallia ad me mitti.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.