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Metadata

DS ID:

DS622

Shelfmark:

LJS 345

Title:

Inventions or devises

Inventions

Author:

Bourne, William, approximately 1535-1582

William Bourne WIKIDATA

Place:

Gravesend?, England

Gravesend TGN

England TGN

Date:

circa 1576

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from dedication (f. iv verso).
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.
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.
Origin: Probably written in Gravesend (home of William Bourne), England, ca. 1576.
Sold at auction at Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 207.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Manuscripts, English

drawings (visual works)

tables (documents)

Inventions

Early works

Military art and science

Technology

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958307223503681

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https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p33b5wm03/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania