University of Pennsylvania, LJS 345

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS622

Shelfmark:

LJS 345

Title:

Inventions or devises.

Author:

Bourne, William, approximately 1535-1582

William Bourne WIKIDATA

Place:

Gravesend?, England

Gravesend TGN

Date:

[circa 1576]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 127 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 198 x 146 (170 x 115) mm bound to 204 x 158 mm

Note:

Foliation: Paper, i (later paper) + 127 + i (later paper); [i-iv], 1-37, [i], 38-61, [i], 62-69, [i], 70-119, [120]; foliation in ink, lower right recto. References in this record are foliation in the manuscript.
Origin: Probably written in Gravesend (home of William Bourne), England, ca. 1576.
Title for manuscript from dedication (f. iv verso).
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 21-25 long lines; text block outlined in ink.
Script: Written in secretarial script, with dedication (f. iv recto-iv verso) and emendations in italic script in the hand of William Bourne.
Decoration: 3 inserted drawings in ink, of a cannon (following f. 37), a walled city (following f. 61), and a simple plan of a fort (following f. 69); smaller illustrations in ink in the text, including ships under sail and a scale (f. 18v, 58v, 60v, 63v).
Watermark: Urn inscribed TC, similar to Briquet 12814 (Silly, France, 1582).
Binding: Speckled calf, rebacked.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 207.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

drawings (visual works)

diagrams

tables (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, English

Inventions

Military art and science

Technology

Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958307223503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p33b5wm03/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania