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

Title

Laboratory papers

Authors

• Great Britain
• Congreve, William, Sir, 1772-1828

Other related names

• Sandy, John, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 899
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3430916
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3430916

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1800

Place

England

Summary

Handbook with detailed instructions for making balls, grape shot, rockets, mortars, bursting shells, Bengal lights, fuses, fire lances, fire arrows, fire ships, etc. Includes numerous illustrations of tools and methods for producing ammunition. Several innovations are attributed to Col. William Congreve: "To fix powder bags in the safest manner according to Col. Congreve's instructions."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and date from title page (p. i).
   

Watermark

Includes the date 1798.

Extent

108 leaves : 183 x 115 (150 x 92) mm. bound to 189 x 125 mm

Foliation

Paper, 108; [x], 1-189, [xxiii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf, rebacked.

Decoration

32 plates in pen-and-ink and colored ink wash; numerous tables.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Former owners include: H. More Captain R.A. (crossed out signature, p. i); John Sandy, 1881 (signature, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers (London), August 2002.
   

Subjects topical

• Great Britain.--Royal Navy--Weapons systems--Early works to 1800
• Great Britain.--Army.--Royal Artillery Institution--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Artillery--England--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--England--Early works to 1800
• Tools--England--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Handbooks
• Recipes
• Tables (documents)
• Watercolors
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

  This description is ©2016 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

• Text

  All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner signature, Inside front cover
• 2 — Diagram, p. 2
• 8 — Table, p. 8
• 9 — Table, p. 9
• 11 — Diagram, p. 11
• 12 — Table, p. 12
• 13 — Diagram, p. 13
• 14 — Table, p. 14
• 15 — Table, p. 15
• 16 — Table, p. 16
• 19 — Table, p. 19
• 20 — Diagram, p. 20
• 21 — Table, p. 21
• 23 — Diagram, p. 23
• 26 — Diagram, p. 26
• 29 — Diagram, p. 29
• 31 — Table, p. 31
• 36 — Table, p. 36
• 37 — Table, p. 37
• 40 — Diagram, p. 40
• 41 — Diagram, p. 41
• 50 — Diagram, p. 50
• 55 — Diagram, p. 55
• 65 — Diagram, p. 65
• 68 — Diagram, p. 68
• 71 — Table, p. 71
• 72 — Diagram, p. 72
• 78 — Diagram, p. 78
• 82 — Table, p. 82
• 85 — Table, p. 85
• 86 — Table, p. 86
• 94 — Diagram, p. 94
• 100 — Diagram, p. 100
• 104 — Diagram, p. 104
• 107 — Diagram, p. 107
• 109 — Diagram, p. 109
• 112 — Diagram, p. 112
• 113 — Diagram, p. 113
• 117 — Diagram, p. 117
• 120 — Table, p. 120
• 123 — Diagram, p. 123
• 123 — Table, p. 123
• 124 — Diagram, p. 124
• 125 — Diagram, p. 125
• 131 — Diagram, p. 131
• 133 — Table, p. 133
• 134 — Diagram, p. 134
• 135 — Table, p. 135
• 136 — Diagram, p. 136
• 142 — Diagram, p. 142
• 144 — Diagram, p. 144
• 150 — Diagram, p. 150
• 154 — Diagram, p. 154
• 158 — Diagram, p. 158
• 160 — Diagram, p. 160
• 164 — Diagram, p. 164
• 166 — Diagram, p. 166
• 168 — Diagram, p. 168
• 170 — Diagram, p. 170
• 173 — Diagram, p. 173
• 177 — Diagram, p. 177
• 178 — Diagram, p. 178
• 180 — Diagram, p. 180