Mathematical Treasure: Francisco Pellos’s Compendio de lo abaco

Francisco Pellos (fl.1450–1500) was an Italian reckoning master who wrote the first printed commercial arithmetic published in Italy, Compendio de lo abaco (1492). The title page appears below.

The image above was obtained through the courtesy of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. A fully-digitized copy is available through Gallica.

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