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Title

Trassunto ò sia superficiale idea di tutte quelle mattematiche cognizioni, nella quale istruito esser doverebe un officialle, diviso in discorsi sei ... il tutto estratto dalle massime di diversi celebri autori, antichi e moderni, dal' Capitan Teodoro Mauromatti, e consacrato al merito sempre grande di S. Ezzelenza il Signor M. Antonio Diedo

Authors

• Mauromatti, Teodoro

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 332
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915809603503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580960

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1749

Place

Corfu

Summary

Handbook on fortifications, artillery and mathematical information necessary to army officers.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (f. i recto).
   
• Incipit (f. 1r): Negar non si può, che l'Aritmeticha non sia una parte delle Matematiche la più estesa ...
   
• Four folios (f. 10, 12, 14-15) are folded. These all contain illustrations.
   
• Bookseller's description (Jacques Rosenthal) on file in the Library.
   

Extent

20 leaves : 282 x 210 (229 x 146) mm. bound to 289 x 217 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 20 + i (contemporary paper); [iv], 1-16; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment. Boards badly warped. Parchment peeling away from upper board; front pastedown pulled loose, back pastedown coming loose.

Decoration

Numerous mathematical figures and drawings of fortifications including four illustrated foldouts (f. 6r, 8r, 10r, 11v).

Script

Written in a single cursive hand.

Provenance

• Formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 2654; note, f. i recto).
   
• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Applied mathematics
• Military engineering--Mathematics
• Siege warfare

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Diagram, f. 1v
• fol. 4r — Diagram, f. 4r
• fol. 5r — Diagram, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 10r — Diagram, f. 10r
• fol. 11v — Diagram, f. 11v