Trattato delle fortificazioni / di Domenico Quartaroni.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Quartaroni, Domenico, 1651-1736.

Contributor:

Silva, Donato, conte, former owner.

Morbio, Carlo, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Fortification--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Fortification.

Mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics.

Geometry--Early works to 1800.

Geometry.

Italy--History, Military--1559-1789.

Italy.

History, Military.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

drawings (visual works)

treatises

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

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

Accessioned, 1961.

Physical Description:

127 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 256 x 197 (195 x 127) mm bound to 263 x 202 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1650 and 1799]

Language Note:

Italian.

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).

Pagination: 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.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

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

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1650 and 1799.

Publications about:

This work is not listed by Pietro Riccardi, Biblioteca Matematica Italiana, 2 vols., Milan, 1952.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 377

OCLC:

155965099