Pirotechnia : li diece libri della pirotechnia, nelliquali si tratta non solo la diuersita delle minere, ma ancho quanto si ricer ca alla prattica di esse e di quanto s'appartiene all' arte della fusione ouer getto de me talli, e d'ogni altra cosa a questa somigliante / composti per il S. Vannuccio Biringuccio, nobile Senese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biringucci, Vannoccio, 1480-1539?

Contributor:

Padovano, Giovanni, active 1531-1558, printer.

Navò, Curzio Troiano de, active 1537-1566, publisher.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De la pirotechnia

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Mineral industries--Early works to 1800.

Mineral industries.

Metallurgy--Early works to 1800.

Metallurgy.

Metal-work--Early works to 1800.

Metal-work.

Fireworks--Early works to 1800.

Fireworks.

Penn Provenance:

Taggart, W. T. (Walter Thomas), 1872-1938 (donor)

Rose, F. (autograph)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 167 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

5.ge .Ela o,au maqu (3) 1550 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Per Giouan Padoano : A instantia die Curtio de Nauò ..., MDL [1550]

Notes:

Place of printing and printer's and publisher's names from colophon on leaf X7v, which reads: In Vinegia, per Giouan Padoano, a instantia die Curtio de Nauò. M D L.

Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁸ A-X⁸.

Leaves 126 and 164 numbered 124 and 146, respectively.

Title within illustrated woodcut border; woodcut illustrations, initials and publisher's device.

Many of the woodcut illustrations also appear in editions of the Pirotechnia printed by others, including Comin da Trino di Monferrato for Curzio Troiano de Navò (1558) and Girolamo Giglio (1559), and in Zaccharias Puteo's Clavis medica rationalis, spagyrica, et chyrurgica (Typographus Leonis Aureati, 1612).

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Smith copy has a few ms. marginal notes in brown ink on leaf Q1r.

Presented to the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection at the University of Pennsylvania by Dr. W.T. Taggart.

Penn Libraries Smith copy has autograph ("F. Rose.") of F. Rose in brown ink at head of front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries Smith copy bound in full parchment; all edges mottled dark.

Penn Libraries Smith copy has paper slip with bookseller's typescript description of this copy laid in.

Penn Libraries Smith copy has a few wormholes in pastedowns, free endpapers and a few leaves at beginning and end of volume; leaves closely cropped at head margin with occasional minor damage to running titles.

Cited in:

Brunet I, 357

EDIT 16 CNCE 6157

OCLC:

8943209