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Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte · Volume 47 (1997)

Grammatica loquitur - Arithmetica numerat. Ein numismatischer Beitrag zur Geschichte des Nürnberger Schreib- und Rechenmeisters

Cornelia Manegold

  • pp. 167–203
  • Article
  • German

Abstract

From the middle of the 16th century an the very common "Schulpfennig" (school penny) of Nuremberg had the function of an admission token and as "Horn-book". The representations of the reckoning master (Rechenmeister) and the ABC-tablet refer to the Ars Arithmetica and the Ars Grammatica in the service at the writing- and the arithmetic school. Both arts had a prefered rank among the other arts, since by these two the progress of all other arts yet becomes possible

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Manegold, Cornelia: Grammatica loquitur - Arithmetica numerat. Ein numismatischer Beitrag zur Geschichte des Nürnberger Schreib- und Rechenmeisters. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 47 (1997), pp. 167–203.