(Q3451)
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Helm, Franz, approximately 1500-1567
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Dupeireux, Girard
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Holnstein aus Bayern, Franz Ludwig, Graf von
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Military art and science--Early works to 1800
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[between 1585 and 1599?]
16. century
1575Gregorian
1599
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Extent: 132 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 305 x 190 (217 x 130) mm bound to 307 x 210 mm
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Layout: Written in 27-28 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in drypoint.
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Origin: Probably written in Bavaria, in the late 16th century.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Foliation: Paper, ii + 132; 2-76, [i], 77-130, 132-133; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
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Ms. codex.
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Binding: Contemporary leather, stamped and gold-tooled (but varnished and blackened), over late-18th or early-19th-century-leather over wooden boards.
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Decoration: 30 illustrations in colored ink or colored washes over ink drawings, most being of types of weapons and explosives, with 2 illustrations of cannon-masters framed in red ink (f. 2r, 105r) and a landscape showing the use of animals to carry explosives into a city, also framed in red ink (f. 60r); headings in red and black.
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Watermark: Cross in circle belonging to Piccard Three Mounts, Class X, nos. 2879-3059 (mainly Munich and Augsburg, also Donauwörth and the Tyrol, 1555-1635).
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Script: Written in German cursive script.
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Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
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Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
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Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2002.
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Formerly owned by Girard Dupeireux (no. 124), perhaps a gift from his brother-in-law (Schwager), Baron Valentin von E[??], 1731 (inscription, f. 2v).
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Formerly owned by Franz Ludwig, Graf von Holnstein aus Bayrn (armorial bookplate, inside upper cover).
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Formerly owned by the Furstl. Ysenburg und Büdingen'sche Bibliothek zu Büdingen (library stamps, f. 2v, 3r)
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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