Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

L'architettura militare ad uso delle regie Scuole d'Artiglieria e Fortificazione.

Authors

• Regia accademia di artiglieria e genio

Other related names

• Duff, Archibald, -1858, former owner
• Perkins, G. Holmes, donor (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92042308)

Call number

Ms. Codex 1634
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 995109663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80198838
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dj58j9z http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000252

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1759

Place

Turin

Summary

Plans of fortifications for use at the royal academy of artillery and fortification founded in Turin in 1678, consisting entirely of figures of plans and elevations, some with landscape elements added in the background.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

179 leaves : 272 x 210 mm bound to 282 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 179 + ii; [1-179]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards, red morocco back gilt (seller's description, inside upper cover).

Decoration

Title in red, blue and black with large vignette depicting the goddess of war surrounded by military trophies and cherubs engaged in surveying, drawing, and planning (f. 1r); 2 full-page rococo vignettes (f. 32r, 55r), plans and elevations executed in pen and ink, mostly with colored washes added, all with ink ruled borders.

Provenance

• Transferred from Fine Arts Library to Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
   
• Formerly owned by Admiral Archibald Duff (armorial bookplate, 1858, inside front cover).
   
• Gift of G. Holmes Perkins (University of Pennsylvania bookplate, front flyleaf), 1978.
   
• Sold by Marlborough Rare Books Ltd. (London), cat. 81 (1978), no. 14 (description inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Military architecture--Early works to 1800
• Fortification--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Military architecture
• Fortification
• Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Pen and wash drawings
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Italian

Keywords

• 18th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper
• Diagrams
• Drawing

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorative vignette, f. 1r
• fol. 32r — Decorative vignette, f. 32r
• fol. 55r — Decorative vignette, f. 55r