Details

Other Title:

Negare non si può che l'Aritmeticha non sia una parte delle Matematiche la più estesa.

Subjects:

Applied mathematics.
Military engineering -- Mathematics.
Siege warfare.
Military engineering.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Handbook on fortifications, artillery and mathematical information necessary to army officers.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from title page (f. i recto).
Incipit (f. 1r): Negar non si può, che l'Aritmeticha non sia una parte delle Matematiche la più estesa ...
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 20 + i (contemporary paper); [iv], 1-16; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a single cursive hand.
Four folios (f. 10, 12, 14-15) are folded. These all contain illustrations.
Decoration: Numerous mathematical figures and drawings of fortifications including four illustrated foldouts (f. 6r, 8r, 10r, 11v).
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Boards badly warped. Parchment peeling away from upper board; front pastedown pulled loose, back pastedown coming loose.
Origin: Written in Corfu, 1749 (f. i recto).
Bookseller's description (Jacques Rosenthal) on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 2654; note, f. i recto).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1959.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 111 (Ms. Italian 89).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 332

Contributor:

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

155964405