EARLY 17TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT ON ARTLLERY. Tratado de artilleria (Treatise on artill...

EARLY 17TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT ON ARTLLERY. Tratado de artilleria (Treatise on artillery), with 4 fine ink drawings of equipment, manuscript on paper, in Spanish, early 17th century, 155 x 100 mm. 1 leaf + 90 numbered pages + 2 unnumbered leaves of tables + 4 folding plates of illustrative diagrams + 1 leaf. Written in brown ink in a small, convoluted Spanish cursive script. Original binding of vellum over pasteboards, evidence of two ties, two partially illegible paper labels (shelfmarks) on spine, contemporary title 'Artilleria' lettered on spine. Contents: pp 1-32, Tratado dela arthilleria prachtica y sus principios; pp 33-74, Del practicho arthillero; pp. 75-90, Tratado ... que tocca cada punto dela arthilleria delos pert[r]echos ... para sacar en campana; 3 pp of tables (in another hand) relating to the calibers of cannons; 4 folding plates of finely executed ink drawings of cannons and related equipment. Front and back flyleaves: pencil drawings of cannons. AN UNRECORDED TREATISE ON ARTILLERY RELATED TO LECHUGA'S 1611 DISCURSO ... EN QUE TRATA DE LA ARTILLERIA. This treatise, divided into three major sections, discusses the form and uses of artillery, the manufacture of cannons, and their management in the field as well as the responsibilities of those charged overseeing military operations. These topics are similar to those treated at considerably greater length in the artillery section of Cristobal Lechuga's Discurso que trata de la Artilleria y de todo lo necesario a ella, con un tratado de Fortificacion y otros advertimientos dirigido al Rey nuestro Senor, published in Milan in 1611, an important publication on its subject. Lechuga's work is named in contemporary script on the front flyleaf and is cited on p 75, thus dating the present treatise to after 1611. This manuscript may have been intended as a summary for personal use, or it may have been copied from another printed source, as the 4 folding plates at the end are labeled 'Estampa 1a-4a.' Lot to be sold without reserve. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Without reserve For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing