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Sloane MS 3651
- Record Id:
- 040-002116041
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000711.0x000163
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100153853926.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 3651
- Title:
- William Bourne, mathematical manuscript dedicated to William Cecil
- Scope & Content:
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A treatise (untitled and undated) on gunnery, survey, surveying instruments, the measurement of surfaces and solids, and other mathematical practices. It was dedicated to William Cecil, first Baron Burghley in 1573, and includes several diagrams.
The manuscript is divided into three parts and seems to have been intended for printing, though the material was reorganized when it was published in 1578.
The first part on gunnery and range-finding is based on the first section of Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia's Quesiti et inventioni diverse (1546) on the mathematics of artillery, and was published as The art of shooting in great ordnance (1578). The second part was published as A Booke called the Treasure for Traueilers (1578).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002116041 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 3651 : William Bourne, mathematical manuscript dedicated to William Cecil - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[3664]/040-002116041
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100153853926.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1572
- End Date:
- 1573
- Date Range:
- 1572-1573
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 311 x 240 mm.
Foliation: ff. 107 + 6.
Binding: British Library binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Possibly William Cecil (1520–1598).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector.
Purchased in 1753 from Sloane's executors by the Act of Parliament which also established the British Museum.
- Publications:
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William Bourne, The Arte of Shooting in Great Ordnance (London: Henry Bynneman, 1578).
William Bourne, A Booke called the Treasure for Traueilers (London: Thomas Dawson for Thomas Woodcocke, 1578).
'Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane', unpublished catalogue, volume 15, p. 715.
E. G. R. Taylor (ed.) A Regiment for the Sea, and Other Writings on Navigation, by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner, c.1535–1582 (London: Hakluyt Society, 2017).
E. G. R. Taylor, Tudor Geography, 1485–1583 (London: Methuen & Co, 1930), pp. 153–58.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)