Harvard University, MS Typ 261

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DS ID:

DS10943

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 261

Title:

La prima parte della espugnatione delle città, e fortezze

Author:

Maggi, Girolamo, -1572

Girolamo Maggi WIKIDATA

Date:

1555.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

ill.

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (293 p.) : ill. ; 34 cm.

Note:

Dedicated to "Hercole Da Este II Duca IIII di Ferrara" (title page).
The Italian text is written in an informal italic hand in brown ink, with numerous drawings in the same ink of munitions and siege machinery.
Date from dedication, p. 8.
Bound in white doeskin tooled in silver and stamped with the names of Duke Ercole (front) and the author (back).
In a tray case, 36 cm.
Bequest of Philip Hofer, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Military art and science

Siege warfare

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096779910203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:482902634

Holding Institution:

Harvard University