Chambret, de

  • Chambret, de
Date:
1682
Reference:
MS.1546
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Traité d'horologiographie, ou méthode pour construire des cadrans au soleil. Illustrated by numerous pen-drawn astronomical figures and diagrams. Pasted on the title-page is a cut-down engraved coat-of-arms, not identified.

Publication/Creation

1682

Physical description

1 volume 8 ll. first 2 & last bl.. + 67 pp. + 5 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 57 pp. 4to. 22 x 171/2 cm. Original mottled calf binding. A number of margins are stained with green paint.

Contributors

Acquisition note

Purchased 1928.

Biographical note

This MS. is anonymous, but written by the same hand as the 'Receptes pour les chevaus' (MS. 1545).

Ownership note

From the Berhard II Collection.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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Accession number

  • 53000