About this Item

Title

 [Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artillery, mechanics,

and pyrotechnics].

Names

 Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

 [Italy? 17th cent.]

Headings

 - Military topography
 - Military engineering
 - Italy

Notes

 - Manuscript on paper. Leaves 4-81 so numbered.

 - Title devised by Library staff.
 - Mainly pen and ink diagrsams and drawings, some painted with water colors.
 - The text accompanying part of the illustration is in Italian, a few pages are in
Spanish.
 - Francesco Tensini, whose work La fortificatione was first published in 1624, is
quoted on leaves 29 and [102].
 - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1363
 - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
 - LAC ddw 2022-02-09 update (1 card)

Medium

 [275] l., illus. (part col.), 12 x 16 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

 Rosenwald Coll. ms. no. 27

Digital Id

 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.1363

Library of Congress Control Number

  50032645

Online Format

 pdf
 image

LCCN Permalink

 https://lccn.loc.gov/50032645