1. Add MS 45543
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 45543
- Title:
- 'BREVE COMPENDIO DI FORTIFICACIONE': an anonymous treatise on fortification in Italian in two books, with thirty-four illustrative diagrams and an introduction; late 17th cent. Beg. 'Deffinizioni geometriche neccessarie per la Fortificacione' (f. 2). The treatise, which resembles Add. MS. 10777 in arrangement and illustration, refers to Les Travaux de Mars (by A. Manesson Mallet, 3 vols., Paris, 1671-1685) as the most recently published French work on the subject (f. 32b). Five printed table...
- Scope & Content:
- Fortification: 'Breve Compendio di Fortificacione': circ. 1685.: Ital. includes: ff. 77-80 Domenico Maria Ferroni: Tables of angles rel. to fortification: 1679.: Ital.: Printed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- Late 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item