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Title

Theatre des instrumens mathematiques & mechaniques / de Iaques Besson, Dauphinois ... ; auec l'interpretation des figures d'iceluy par François Beroald.

Author

Besson, Jacques (Mathematician)

Publication

A Lyon : Par Barthelemy Vincent, 1578.

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Additional Authors

• Béroalde de Verville, 1556-
• Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584.
• Boyvin, René.

Description

[40] p., 60 leaves of plates : ill.; 40 cm. (fol.)

Uniform Title

Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum. French (Middle French)

Alternative Title

• Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum.
• Theatre des instrumens mathematiques et mechaniques.
• Theatre des instrvemns Mathematiques & Mechaniques.

Subject

• Mechanical engineering > Early works to 1800
• Machinery > Early works to 1800
• Machinery in art > Early works to 1800
• Papermaking machinery > Early works to 1800
• Papermaking machinery in art > Early works to 1800

Note

• "Noua moletrinæ trusatilis structura, ad premendos, et parandos pannos, et chartam ...": plate 25; Middle French translation of caption and explanation by Béroald: p. [21].
• Issued also in Latin under title: Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum ... Lugduni : Apud Barth. Vincentium, 1578. Another 1578 Latin issue has title and preliminaries in Latin and French. Cf. Mortimer, R. 16th cent. French, 57-58.
• Signatures: A-E⁴.
• Illustrations: 60 prints : etching ; full page (plate mark 33 x 20 cm.). Originally designed by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau and engraved by various hands, possibly under the supervision of Androuet; published (without the text by Béroalde) under title Instrumentorum et machinarum, quas Iacobus Bessonus Delphinas ... excogitauit ... liber primus. [Orléans? : s.n., 1569?]. In this issue, 56 prints are reimpressions from reworked plates and 4 (nos. 17, 35, 39, 51) are copies by René Boyvin.
• Woodcut architectural border on t.p.; head- and tailpieces; historiated and ornamental initials.

Indexed In (note)

• Brunet
• Tchemerzine
• Robert-Dumesnil, A. Peintre-graveur français
• Brun, R. Livre illustré en France au XVIeme siècle

Language (note)

• Text in Middle French; engraved captions in Latin.

Call Number

Schlosser 080

OCLC

• 32791464
• NYPG89-B44731

Author

Besson, Jacques (Mathematician)

Title

Theatre des instrumens mathematiques & mechaniques / de Iaques Besson, Dauphinois ... ; auec l'interpretation des figures d'iceluy par François Beroald.

Imprint

A Lyon : Par Barthelemy Vincent, 1578.

Indexed In:

Brunet, I, col. 829-830

Tchemerzine, II, p. 163

Robert-Dumesnil, A. Peintre-graveur français, VIII, p. 79-81, nos. 180-183

Brun, R. Livre illustré en France au XVIeme siècle, p. 151

Language

Text in Middle French; engraved captions in Latin.

Local Note

Provenance: C. Tassin de Villiers (armorial bookplate); C. Mangonoz, Eugène Berman, Paris, 1939 (inscriptions).

Added Author

Béroalde de Verville, 1556-

Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584.

Boyvin, René.

Added Title

Theatre des instrumens mathematiques et mechaniques.

Theatre des instrvemns Mathematiques & Mechaniques.

Research Call Number

Schlosser 080