Inventions or devises (DS622) (Q2932)

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Inventions or devises (DS622)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from University of Pennsylvania (9958307223503681, LJS 345, https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958307223503681)

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    4 August 2023
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    Inventions or devises
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    Inventions--Early works to 1800
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    Military art and science--Early works to 1800
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    Technology--Early works to 1800
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    Early works to 1800
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    Extent: 127 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 198 x 146 (170 x 115) mm bound to 204 x 158 mm
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    paper, illustrations
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    Ms. codex.
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    Title for manuscript from dedication (f. iv verso).
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    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.
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    Layout: Written in 21-25 long lines; text block outlined in ink.
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    Script: Written in secretarial script, with dedication (f. iv recto-iv verso) and emendations in italic script in the hand of William Bourne.
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    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).
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    Watermark: Urn inscribed TC, similar to Briquet 12814 (Silly, France, 1582).
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    Binding: Speckled calf, rebacked.
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    Origin: Probably written in Gravesend (home of William Bourne), England, ca. 1576.
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    Sold at auction at Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 207.
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    Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
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    Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
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    28 April 2025
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