L'architettura militare ad uso delle regie Scuole d'Artiglieria e Fortificazione

Name:

Regia accademia di artiglieria e genio

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1759

Description:

Plans of fortifications for use at the royal academy of artillery and fortification founded in Turin in 1678, consisting entirely of figures of plans and elevations, some with landscape elements added in the background. This is a volume of plates probably intended to accompany a volume of text, such as a treatise with the same or similar title by either Carlo Andrea Rana (1715-1804) or Alessandro Vittorio Papacino D'Antoni (1714-1755), both professors at the school of artillery and fortification in Turin.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Admiral Archibald Duff (armorial bookplate, 1858, inside front cover).; Sold by Marlborough Rare Books Ltd. (London), cat. 81 (1978), no. 14 (description inside front cover).; Gift of G. Holmes Perkins (University of Pennsylvania bookplate, front flyleaf), 1978.; Transferred from Fine Arts Library to Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania, 2013.; Duff, Archibald, -1858, former owner.; Perkins, G. Holmes donor.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000252

Subject:

Fortification -- Italy -- Early works to 1800; Military architecture -- Early works to 1800; Military architecture; Fortification

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); diagrams; pen and wash drawings; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

179 leaves : paper, color illustrations; 272 x 210 mm bound to 282 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Foliation: Paper, ii + 179 + ii; [1-179]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Decoration: Title in red, blue and black with large vignette depicting the goddess of war surrounded by military trophies and cherubs engaged in surveying, drawing, and planning (f. 1r); 2 full-page rococo vignettes (f. 32r, 55r), plans and elevations executed in pen and ink, mostly with colored washes added, all with ink ruled borders.; Watermark: D & C Blauw, originally Dutch but also copied elsewhere.; Binding: Contemporary boards, red morocco back gilt (seller's description, inside upper cover).; Origin: Written in Turin in 1759 (title page, f. 1r).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1634