Details

Subjects:

Fortification -- Early works to 1800.
Fortification.
Military architecture -- Early works to 1800.
Military architecture.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Tables (documents)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Treatise on fortification including chapters such as "De la castrametation," "Du camp de l'artillerie," and "Précis de fortification." Four plates contain tables (after p. 48) and diagrams of a camp and camp buildings (3 plates inside back cover). The last section of the book is a collection of questions titled "Table interrogatoire et raisonnée de tous les objets à considerer..." (pp. 97-102).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Pagination: Paper, 120; 1-48, [ii], 49-68, 67-120, [xiv]; near-contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.
Layout: Frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: 3 folded plates inside back cover, the first containing the figures "Camp d'un Régiment d'infantrie" and "Camp d'un régiment de cavalerie"; the second showing figures concerning sight lines or trajectories from different fort layouts; and the third, highlighted with red ink, showing a plan and elevation of a fort.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Hirsch).
Origin: Written in France in the late 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased in 1966.

Cited in:

Described in Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(1). The Library Chronicle, 1969, p. 24 (Ms. French 117).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 995.

OCLC:

155927454

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