Details

Subjects:

Artillery -- Early works to 1800.
Artillery.
Explosives -- Early works to 1800.
Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Military art and science.
Technology -- Early works to 1800.
Technology.
Explosives.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

French.

Summary:

Treatise on artillery and explosives, as well as the construction of devices necessary for the construction and use of artillery and explosives. Concludes with several tables concerning distances and a detailed table of contents. A note in pencil on the last flyleaf refers to M. Robert, officier dans la marine; calculations in pencil inside lower cover; 2 notes in French with military references laid inside lower cover, one a note to Sergent Moulin, perhaps signed M. A. Gravitz.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r); spine title Instruction pour les offic. d'artillerie.
Pagination: Paper, 425 leaves; 1-235,235-366, [i], 367-525, 525-684, 684-803, [804-846 (838-846 blank)]; pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 18-25 long lines.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
Watermarks: ANTOINE MALME[?], enclosed in a rectangle with rounded ends, with a quatrefoil separating the words; bird enclosed in a circle.
Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) calf, gilt spine with title.
Origin: Written in France after 1720 (latest date in text, p. 369).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by D. L. Béatrix du Tronquet, officier de l'artillerie (inscription inside upper cover).
Sold by F. Thomas Heller, Inc. (Swarthmore, Pa.).
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 50.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 126 (LJS 219).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 219.

Contributor:

Béatrix du Tronquet, D. L., former owner.
Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

811147016

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page