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Title

Della mechanica

Call number

Ms. Codex 642
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486714
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486714

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1763 and 1784

Place

Italy

Summary

A collection of treatises or possibly lecture notes on geometry, astronomy, mechanics and artillery. Comprises three sections or notebooks bound together at a later time; the first, Della mechanica, discusses geometry and trigonometry (ff. 1-60); the second, astronomy (ff. 61-108); and the third is an account of a manuscript treatise sent to the author by Francisco Corner on artillery trials carried out at Carpi in June 1784 (ff. 109-127).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• Date 1763 appears in an example on f. 101; 1764 on leaves laid in after f. 60; final section is dated 1784 (f. 109).
   

Extent

136 leaves : 288 x 201 (259 x 136) mm. bound to 298 x 215 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern paper) + 136 + i (modern paper); [1-136]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Five leaves are laid inside cardboard cover after f. 60; section two is bound in another contemporary cardboard cover, before f. 61 and after f. 108.

Support

Paper

Binding

Early 19th-century half calf with marbled boards. Spine cracked at upper hinge.

Decoration

Illustrated with diagrams throughout in a wide left margin in sections one and two and a wide right margin in section three. A full page diagram of a sphere is tipped onto f. 69.

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Roger Gaskell, 1998.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 4r — Diagram, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Diagram, f. 4v
• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
• fol. 7r — Diagram, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Diagram, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Diagram, f. 9r
• fol. 10r — Diagram, f. 10r
• fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Diagram, f. 17r
• fol. 29v — Diagram, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Diagram, f. 30r
• fol. 31r — Diagram, f. 31r
• fol. 31v — Diagram, f. 31v
• fol. 32r — Diagram, f. 32r
• fol. 32v — Diagram, f. 32v
• fol. 33r — Diagram, f. 33r
• fol. 33v — Diagram, f. 33v
• fol. 34r — Diagram, f. 34r
• fol. 34v — Diagram, f. 34v
• fol. 35r — Diagram, f. 35r
• fol. 35v — Diagram, f. 35v
• fol. 36v — Diagram, f. 36v
• fol. 37r — Diagram, f. 37r
• fol. 37v — Diagram, f. 37v
• fol. 38v — Diagram, f. 38v
• fol. 39r — Diagram, f. 39r
• fol. 39v — Diagram, f. 39v
• fol. 40r — Diagram, f. 40r
• fol. 41r — Diagram, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Diagram, f. 42r
• fol. 44v — Diagram, f. 44v
• fol. 45r — Diagram, f. 45r
• fol. 45v — Diagram, f. 45v
• fol. 46r — Diagram, f. 46r
• fol. 46v — Diagram, f. 46v
• fol. 47r — Diagram, f. 47r
• fol. 47v — Diagram, f. 47v
• fol. 48r — Diagram, f. 48r
• fol. 48v — Diagram, f. 48v
• fol. 62r — Diagram, f. 62r
• fol. 62v — Diagram, f. 62v
• fol. 63r — Diagram, f. 63r
• fol. 65v — Diagram, f. 65v
• fol. 69v — Diagram, f. 69v
• fol. 71v — Diagram, f. 71v
• fol. 72r — Diagram, f. 72r
• fol. 75r — Diagram, f. 75r
• fol. 78r — Diagram, f. 78r
• fol. 80v — Diagram, f. 80v
• fol. 81v — Diagram, f. 81v
• fol. 82v — Diagram, f. 82v
• fol. 83r — Diagram, f. 83r
• fol. 83v — Diagram, f. 83v
• fol. 85r — Diagram, f. 85r
• fol. 87r — Diagram, f. 87r
• fol. 87v — Diagram, f. 87v
• fol. 88r — Diagram, f. 88r
• fol. 88v — Diagram, f. 88v
• fol. 95v — Diagram, f. 95v
• fol. 113r — Diagram, f. 113r
• fol. 117r — Diagram, f. 117r
• fol. 119r — Diagram, f. 119r
• fol. 120r — Diagram, f. 120r
• fol. 122r — Diagram, f. 122r