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Alternate Title:

Exercitio militari usata nella militia Allemane dal regemento de guardia nell Real pallaz[z]o de Genua

Name:

Petersen, Hans

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1639

Description:

Tracts on military fortifications and military exercises with numerous diagrams, including problems in geometry as applied to fortifications and defense. Diagrams and drawings in pen and ink include 13 folded leaves bound in.

Language:

German

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ludwig von Castella, Freiburg, 1888 (note, flyleaf i).; Sold by Robin Halwas Booksellers (London), June 1996.; Castella, Ludwig von, former owner.

Subject:

Fortification -- Italy -- Genoa -- Early works to 1800; Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Geometry; Military art and science -- Italy -- Genoa -- Early works to 1800; Military art and science; Fortification

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; drawings (visual works); tables (documents); Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

240 leaves : paper, illustrations; 144 x 70 (122 x 53) mm bound to 146 x 75 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy -- Genoa

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. v).; Pagination: Paper, iv (contemporary paper) + 240 + iii (contemporary paper) leaves; [v], 1-157, [iv], 158-183, [ii], 184-193, [ii], 194-201, [ii], 202-219, [ii], 220-235, [ii], 236-245, [ii], 246-273, [ii], 274-289, [iv], 290-327, [ii], 328-341, [iv], 342-353, [ii], 354-369, [ii], 370-427, 429-434, [435-437]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Decoration: Frontispiece with coat of arms in red and brown ink with the motto "Et Rege eos firmissimum, libertatis, munimentum" with page cut off at the bottom (p. iii); diagrams and tables in red and brown ink throughout.; Binding: Contemporary black tooled leather with "H. P." on spine and upper cover; clasps missing. Some worm damage on covers; a few folded leaves are torn; damage to leather on upper and lower edges of spine.; Origin: Written in Genoa in 1639 (p. ii).; German, with a few sections in Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 888