Pirotechnia del S. Vannuccio Biringuccio Senese : nella quale si tratta non solo della diuersità delle minere, ma anco di quanto si ricerca alla practica di esse e di quanto s'appartiene all'arte della fusione, ò getto, de metalli : far campane, arteglierie, fuochi artificiati, & altre diuerse cose utilissime : nuouamente corretta, et ristampata : con la tauola delle cose notabili.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biringucci, Vannucio, 1480-1539?

Contributor:

Giglio, Girolamo, active 16th century, printer.

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:

Chiesa di San Tommaso Apostolo (Turin, Italy) (former owner) (inscription) (stamp)

Physical Description:

345 leaves, 7 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

nea- teu- ciOn e,cu (3) 1559 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Apresso P. Gironimo Giglio e compagni, MDLIX [1559]

Notes:

Signatures: a-2x⁸.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device), illustrations, initials and head-pieces.

Many of the woodcut illustrations also appear in editions of the Pirotechnia printed by others, including Giovanni Padovano for Curzio Troiano de Navò (1550) and Comin da Trino di Monferrato for Curzio Troiano de Navò (1558), and in Zaccharias Puteo's Clavis medica rationalis, spagyrica, et chyrurgica (Typographus Leonis Aureati, 1612).

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Smith copy has a few ms. marginal pencil marks in text.

Penn Libraries Smith copy has ms. ownership inscription ("Pertinet ad Bibliotheca[m] Sancti Thome Taurini") of the library of the Chiesa di San Tommaso Apostolo (Turin, Italy) in brown ink (partially struck through) on title leaf; oval stamp ("BIBLIOTHECA S. THOMAE TAVRINI") of the same institution on leaf a2r.

Penn Libraries Smith copy bound in full parchment with cover extensions (each ca. 8 mm. in width); ms. author's surnamen, brief title, and place and date of printing in red ink on spine; all edges yellow.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 6159

OCLC:

83009237