| Record ID | cp012576 |
| Voet reference number | 1955 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
| Author | Aurelio de PASINO |
| Title page transcription | DISCOVRS ‖ Sur plusieurs poincts ‖ DE ‖ L'ARCHITECTVRE ‖ DE GVERRE, ‖ CONCERNANTS les fortifications tant ‖ anciennes que modernes. ‖ ENSEMBLE le moyen de bastir & fortifier vne place ‖ de laquelle les murailles ne pourront aucunement ‖ estre endommagées de l'artillerie. ‖ Par M. AVRELIO DE PASINO Ferrarois, architecte de ‖ tres-illustre Seigneur, Monseigneur le Duc de BVILLON. ‖ ⊕ 25 ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, ‖ Imprimeur de sa Maiesté. ‖ M.D.LXXIX. |
| Collation | 4⁰ [207]: A-M⁴, [N⁴]; pages 1-95, [96-104] (Errors: 6, 7, 8 not numbered, 78-79 twice, 87-88 omitted) |
| Fingerprint | 157904 - # b1 A2 ,$à$fin : # https://anet.ua.ac.be/brocade/brocade.phtml#b2 M3 icelle |
| Number of sheets | 12 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-5: A tres-haut et tres-illustre prince Guillaume par la Grace de Dieu, prince d'Orange…(italic type) [6-8]: Ch. de Navieres sed. gentilh. en la maison de son Excellce (italic type) 9-95: Text (parts and marginals in italic type) 95: approbation (Antwerp, signed by Waltherus vander Steeghen) [96-104]: illustrations |
| Edition information | |
| Illustrations | Of varying dimensions, showing aspects of 'l'architecture de guerre' (how to build 'modern' fortifications able to withstand artillery, and vice versa how to weaken fortified places): 1) Woodcuts: 10 illustrations, on page 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 36, 63, 68, 71 2) Copper engravings: a) 4 illustrations, given as hors-texte: in Museum Plantin-Moretus-copy bound between pages 56-57 (80 × c. 400), 64-65 (165 × c. 215), 94-95 (2 illustrations: 295 × c. 295; 265 × c. 300) b) At the end: one illustration (228 × 182), printed on verso-side of the last printed page (page [96]), followed by 4 similar illustrations of similar dimensions printed each on the recto-side of a page |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 960KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeGhent University LibraryBritish Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 206 (1579, no. 29) H. Wauwermans, op. cit.; M.J.D. Cockle, A bibliography of military books up to 1642, 1957 (facsimile reprint of the original edition, 1900), page 202, no. 781Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 3942 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12913459USTC 61161 |
| Note 1 | Interesting illustrated treatise on fortifications by an Italian military engineer, who most probably resided at that time in Antwerp and was in the service of the Prince of Orange or willing to enter it. Either directly by the Prince, or through de Navières, military adviser to William the Silent, Plantin must have been persuaded to print this valuable work for the military men defending the Netherlands against the Spanish armies. |
| Note 2 | Who executed the woodcuts is not clear, but the copper engravings were made by Abraham de Bruyn, who received, on 3 November 1578, 10 florins Carolus guilders 'à bon compte des fig[ures] de la fortification' and again, on 1 December 1579, 15 florins Carolus guilders 'pour tailleures en cuivre des fortif[ications]' (Arch. 14, folios 29 and 30). |
| Note 3 | Listed in M 296, folios 1v (Architecture de Guerre de A. Pasino, 4⁰, 79, [price:] stuivers 12, f[euilles] -) and 5r (Discours sur plusieurs poincts de l'Architecture de guerre de M. Aurelio Passino, 1579, 4⁰, f[euilles] 17, [price:] stuivers 12), and M 164, folios 2v and 10r. |
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