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[Treatise on fortification].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1635
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Geometry--Early works to 1800.
- Geometry.
- Fortification--Italy--Early works to 1800.
- Fortification.
- Military architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Military architecture.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Diagrams.
- Pen and wash drawings.
- Treatises.
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of G. Holmes Perkins (University of Pennsylvania bookplate, inside upper cover), 1971.
- Transferred from Fine Arts Library to Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
- Physical Description:
- 110 unnumbered leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 34 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1700 and 1799]
- Summary:
- Treatise on geometry and fortifications. Oxidation of ink has caused some damage (especially f. 25).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Decoration: Numerous pen diagrams, many with color washes.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the 18th century.
- The inscription Bertoli/Forti on the front flyleaf echoes the spine label; Forti is likely an abbreviation of Fortificazione; Berto may refer to the author, and the writer of the inscription guessed or knew that the full name was Bertoli.
- Fragile; oxidation causing long, straight cuts at the ruled margins of many leaves.
- OCLC:
- 249943413
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