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

Title

Trattato delle fortificazioni

Authors

• Quartaroni, Domenico

Other related names

• Silva, Donato, conte, former owner
• Morbio, Carlo, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 377
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1581089
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1581089

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1799

Place

Italy

Summary

Treatise on the design of fortifications, illustrated with numerous tables and drawings.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. i recto).
   
• Incipit: La necessità, che là l'vamo di difendersi ... (f. 1r).
   

Extent

127 leaves : 256 x 197 (195 x 127) mm. bound to 263 x 202 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 127 + i (contemporary paper); 1-28, 33-39, [i], 40-45, 29-32, 46-66, [i], 67-143. [i], 144-180, [iv], 182-249, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-254], modern pagination in pencil, lower outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Decoration

Many illustrations showing construction plans which maximize lines of defense, with several fold-out illustrations (p. 39, 56, 66, 124, 143).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Former owners include: Donato Silva (stamp, f. i verso) and Carlo Morbio.
   
• Accessioned, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Fortification--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Geometry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• 3 — Diagram, p. 3
• 9 — Diagram, p. 9
• 13 — Diagram, p. 13
• 16 — Diagram, p. 16
• 17 — Diagram, p. 17
• 18 — Diagram, p. 18
• 19 — Diagram, p. 19
• 20 — Diagram, p. 20
• 21 — Diagram, p. 21
• 24 — Diagram, p. 24
• 25 — Diagram, p. 25
• 26 — Diagram, p. 26