Treatise on fortifications [manuscript], ca. 1700.

Treatise on fortifications [manuscript], ca. 1700.

49 leaves : ill., coats of arms ; 23 x 34 cm

Consists of text and drawings on fortifications. Drawings of fortifications include: hypothetical fortifications (leaves 2-19); two plans, iconographical and orthographical, of the fortifications of Comorre on the Danube (leaf 19); fortification of the ancients (leaves 22-23). Also includes: drawing of the Prince of Wales coat of arms, with 2 small scenes on each side illustrating Latin sayings encouraging the use of arms (leaf 2); emblematic drawing showing a shadow cast upon England from the sun of King James with the motto "Non Soli sed Orbi Lumen de est" (leaf 3).

Title devised by cataloger.

Prepared for James, Prince of Wales, the Old Pretender. Includes a royal coat of arms with J.R. (leaf 1); a heraldic badge for the Prince of Wales (leaf 2, leaf 20); on cover (in later hand), "Elemens de fortification. présentis à S.A.R. le prince de Galles."

Royall entertainements The1st Part. Of the severall wayes of representing Forteresses (leaves 2-19)
Royall entertainem[en]ts The 2nd Part. Of the beginning & Progresse of Fortifications. And the Authour's Construction (leaves 20-49).

Bound in stiff brown paper wrappers with manuscript waste pasted inside covers.

Formerly Folger MS Add 829.

Acquired from Hatchwell, 1983.

V.b.349

MS Add 829