Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Instruction pour les officiers de l'artillerie

Other related names

• Béatrix du Tronquet, D. L, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 219
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5831589
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5831589

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

after 1720

Place

France

Summary

Treatise on artillery and explosives, as well as the construction of devices necessary for the construction and use of artillery and explosives. Concludes with several tables concerning distances and a detailed table of contents. A note in pencil on the last flyleaf refers to M. Robert, officier dans la marine; calculations in pencil inside lower cover; 2 notes in French with military references laid inside lower cover, one a note to Sergent Moulin, perhaps signed M. A. Gravitz.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r); spine title Instruction pour les offic. d'artillerie.
   

Watermark

ANTOINE MALME[?], enclosed in a rectangle with rounded ends, with a quatrefoil separating the words; bird enclosed in a circle.

Extent

425 leaves : 276 x 194 (195-210 x 150) mm. bound to 282 x 210 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 425 leaves; 1-235,235-366, [i], 367-525, 525-684, 684-803, [804-846 (838-846 blank)]; pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) calf, gilt spine with title.

Layout

Written in 18-25 long lines.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by D. L. Béatrix du Tronquet, officier de l'artillerie (inscription inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by F. Thomas Heller, Inc. (Swarthmore, Pa.).
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 50.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Artillery--Early works to 1800
• Explosives--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Early works to 1800
• Technology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Tables (documents)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• 6 — Table, p. 6
• 7 — Table, p. 7
• 8 — Table, p. 8
• 50 — Table, p. 50
• 62 — Table, p. 62
• 63 — Table, p. 63