Grand tarif : pour cuber toutes sortes de bois d'ecarissage et bois rond avec chacun leurs tables de fraction reduit par cent quarante quatre, tarif du pied courant des noms et nombres des pieces quil faut a la construction des vaisseaux, tarif pour les vivres pour sçavoir combien il faut de rations a chacun hommes pour quainze jours, pour un mois et pour deux mois de chaque espesses

Timespan:

18th century; Early works to 1800; Early works to 1900; Louis XV, 1715-1774

Date:

1735

Description:

Tables for calculations related to timber for shipbuilding; lists of names and numbers of pieces for constructing a ship; and rations of staples such as biscuits, wine, lard, beef, vegetables, oil, vinegar, cheese, sardines, bread, and butter for ship voyages of various lengths.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Sold by Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts (West Vancouver, British Columbia, and Blaine, Washington), 2013.

Relation:

The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366323; The Flora E. Haney Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366220

Subject:

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900; Arithmetic; Mathematics -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics; Shipbuilding -- Early works to 1800; Shipbuilding -- France -- History -- 18th century; Shipbuilding; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Tables (documents); Hymns; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

93 leaves : paper; 130 x 82 (113 x 65-69) mm bound to 136 x 92 mm

Geographic Subject:

France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774; France

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1v-59r: Grand tarif pour cuber toutes sortes de bois d'ecarissage et bois rond avec chacun leurs tables de fraction reduit par cent quarante quatre.; Table of contents: 2. f.60r-65v: Tarif du pied courant.; Table of contents: 3. f.66r: [Vexilla regis, 1735]; Table of contents: 4. f.67r: Table de multiplication, 1735.; Table of contents: 5. f.68r-70r: Table des pieces qui entrent a la construction des vaisseaux.; Table of contents: 6. f.70v-73r: Noms des pieces qui entrent dans la construction des vaisseaux.; Table of contents: 7. f.74r-81v: Tarif pour les vivres pour sçavoir combien il faut de rations a chacun hommes pour quainze jours, pour un mois et pour deux mois de chaque espesses.; Table of contents: 8. f.82r: Sic vita fugit dum staré videtur.; Foliation: Paper, i + 93 + i; [i-iv, 1-89], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Script: Written in cursive script.; Decoration: Fleur-de-lis cross outlined with the words of the Latin hymn Vexilla regis in tiny script (f. 66r); rectangular array, titled Sic vita fugit dum staré videtur, of the letters in the French sundial motto, Nos jours passent comme l'ombre, arranged with the first N at the center and the last E at the 4 corners so that any path using only 2 directions from the center to a corner spells out the phrase (f. 82v).; Binding: Original (18th-century) calf, simple gilt spine with title Gran. Tari.; Origin: Written in Béligon (f. 66r), near Rochefort (location of a shipyard established by Louis XIV on the west coast of France), in 1735 (f. 66r, 67r).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Flora E. Haney Fund.; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1633

Collection:

Rosengarten Family Fund; Flora E. Haney Fund