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Title

Traité de mecanique

Other related names

• Stanitz, John D, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 176
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5819024
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5819024

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

ca. 1700

Place

France

Summary

Treatise with references throughout to the large group of fold-out technical drawings that follow the text. Most of the machines are simple machines, such as levers, inclined planes, pulleys, wheels, and screws, but the last part of the manuscript is devoted to fluid dynamics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

89 leaves : 255 x 172 (200 x 135) mm. bound to 263 x 186 mm., with fold-out drawings 255 x 342-356 mm

Foliation

Paper, 89; [i-ii, 1], 2-57, [58-87], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. The upper right corner of the leaf on which the text begins, which contained not only foliation but also a note, has been cut away (f. 1).

Support

Paper

Binding

Original calf, gilt spine with title Traite de mecan., ribbon marker.

Layout

Text pages written in 18 long lines, with items of numbered lists sometimes marked in left margins.

Decoration

27 plates of colored technical drawings that fold out to the right of blank paper the width of the manuscript, so as to be entirely visible alongside the text pages.

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Offered for sale at an earlier date by Laurence Witten, no. 15173.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 7.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Mechanics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Technical drawings
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, French--17th century
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Introduction, f. 1r
• fol. 4v — Du mouvement des corps durs sans ressorts, f. 4v
• fol. 7v — Du mouvement des corps pesants, f. 7v
• fol. 15r — Des machines propres à communiquer..., f. 15r
• fol. 39r — Du mouvement des corps fluides, f. 39r

Decorations

• fol. 59r — Diagram, f. 59r
• fol. 60r — Diagram, f. 60r
• fol. 61r — Diagram, f. 61r
• fol. 62r — Diagram, f. 62r
• fol. 63r — Diagram, f. 63r
• fol. 64r — Diagram, f. 64r
• fol. 65r — Diagram, f. 65r
• fol. 66r — Diagram, f. 66r
• fol. 67r — Diagram, f. 67r
• fol. 68r — Diagram, f. 68r
• fol. 69r — Diagram, f. 69r
• fol. 70r — Diagram, f. 70r
• fol. 71r — Diagram, f. 71r
• fol. 72r — Diagram, f. 72r
• fol. 73r — Diagram, f. 73r
• fol. 74r — Diagram, f. 74r
• fol. 75r — Diagram, f. 75r
• fol. 76r — Diagram, f. 76r
• fol. 77r — Diagram, f. 77r
• fol. 78r — Diagram, f. 78r
• fol. 79r — Diagram, f. 79r
• fol. 80r — Diagram, f. 80r
• fol. 81r — Diagram, f. 81r
• fol. 82r — Diagram, f. 82r
• fol. 83r — Diagram, f. 83r
• fol. 84r — Diagram, f. 84r
• fol. 85r — Diagram, f. 85r