[Instructions for artillery exercises with cannons and mortars]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

Instructions for artillery exercises with cannons and mortars, with numbered steps for each exercise. At least one leaf is missing after the frontispiece.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Swann Galleries (New York), 18 October 2016, lot 80.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Artillery drill and tactics -- Early works to 1800; Artillery -- Early works to 1800; Artillery; Military art and science -- Early works to 1800; Military art and science; Artillery drill and tactics

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); manuals (instructional materials); pen and wash drawings; Manuscripts, European; books

Physical Description:

73 leaves : paper; 143 x 102 (128 x 82) mm bound to 148 x 110 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 73 + i (modern paper); singleton frontispiece, 1⁸⁻¹ (leaf 1 missing) 2-8⁸ 9⁸⁺¹ (leaf 9 single); contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, [i-ii], 3-146, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 20-22 long lines; textblock border-ruled in ink; octavo format.; Script: Written in semi-cursive script with headings in square capitals.; Decoration: Pen and wash frontispiece of Saint Barbara, patron saint of cannoneers and artillerymen, depicted with martyr's palm and cannon with a domed church in a walled city in the background (p. i); pen and wash cartouches enclosing exercise headings (p. 9, 22, 28, 35, 44, 65, 73, 84, 99, 118, 135); pen and wash vignettes of scallop shells at the end of sections (p. 36, 72); small ink drawing of a seaside scene with buildings and ships at the end of a section; (p. 98); and penwork at the end of sections (p. 34, 44, 64, 66, 71, 83, 98, 146).; Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) limp vellum with two twine clasps and remnants of two thong catches on the fore-edge; modern paper pastedowns and flyleaves.; Origin: Probably written in Spain in the 18th century.; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2029