Details

Subjects:

Fortification -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry.
Fortification.
Italy -- History, Military -- 1559-1789.
Italy.
History, Military.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Drawings (visual works)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Treatise on the design of fortifications, illustrated with numerous tables and drawings.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto).
Incipit: La necessità, che là l'vamo di difendersi ... (f. 1r).
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 127 + i (contemporary paper); 1-28, 33-39, [i], 40-45, 29-32, 46-66, [i], 67-143. [i], 144-180, [iv], 182-249, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-254], modern pagination in pencil, lower outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Many illustrations showing construction plans which maximize lines of defense, with several fold-out illustrations (p. 39, 56, 66, 124, 143).
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1650 and 1799.

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: Donato Silva (stamp, f. i verso) and Carlo Morbio.
Accessioned, 1961.

Publications about:

This work is not listed by Pietro Riccardi, Biblioteca Matematica Italiana, 2 vols., Milan, 1952.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 377

Contributor:

Silva, Donato, conte, former owner.
Morbio, Carlo, former owner.

OCLC:

155965099