1. I pursued my study in depth and learned the give-and-take of disputation. But all this even, and the algorism, as well as the art of Pythagoras, I considered as almost a mistake in respect to the method of the Hindus.

Cvm genitor meus a patria publicus scriba in duana bugee pro pisanis mercatoribus ad eam confluentibus constitutus preesset, me in pueritia mea ad se uenire faciens, inspecta utilitate et commoditate futura, ibi me studio abbaci per aliquot dies stare uoluit et doceri.