Notebook of texts concerning armaments and ballistics, their production and construction, with plans of fortifications and several charts and diagrams of trajectories :
Title devised by cataloger. Drawings in ink or lead point, occasionally in red pencil. The years 1609 and 1602 are noted internally (fol. 1r and 32r). A near-contemporary note on the back pastedown reads grand art d'artillerie par le Sieur Casimir Siemienowicz. This treatise on gunpowder and artillery by Kazimierz Simienowicz (d. 1651?) was published in Amsterdam in 1651.
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