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HOROLOGY – Dom Pierre de SAINTE-MARIE-MADELEINE. ‘Traité d’horlogiographie contenant plusieurs manieres de construire, sur toutes surfaces, toutes sortes de lignes horaires, & autres cercles de la Sphere’, an elegant 17th-century manuscript copy.
Decorated title page in red ink, title, prefatory letter, sonnet, quatrain, table of contents, text in an elegant hand, initial letters and some titles in red ink, on 368 pages, and an extensive series of illustrative figures numbered 1-180, interspersed with 10 tables and 4½ pages of explanatory text, on 89 leaves (paginated 1-175). In French, altogether 230 leaves plus a few blanks, quarto (210 x 165mm), (some bumping to lower margin, more marked to the illustrations; limited ink acidification). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt (hinges cracked, some losses repaired at top and bottom of spine; general light wear). Provenance: Duquesney Deslordes fils (18th-century ownership inscription to title).
A methodical treatise in the French style, with each of the ten chapters divided into numbered propositions: its concentration on the sections of the sphere renders the treatise as much one of geometry as of horology. The author, a native of Abbeville, was a monk of the reformed Cistercian order, the Congregation of the Feuillants. The text was first published at Paris in 1641, and reprinted a number of times in the 17th century: the figures in the present manuscript closely follow those in the published editions.
Decorated title page in red ink, title, prefatory letter, sonnet, quatrain, table of contents, text in an elegant hand, initial letters and some titles in red ink, on 368 pages, and an extensive series of illustrative figures numbered 1-180, interspersed with 10 tables and 4½ pages of explanatory text, on 89 leaves (paginated 1-175). In French, altogether 230 leaves plus a few blanks, quarto (210 x 165mm), (some bumping to lower margin, more marked to the illustrations; limited ink acidification). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt (hinges cracked, some losses repaired at top and bottom of spine; general light wear). Provenance: Duquesney Deslordes fils (18th-century ownership inscription to title).
A methodical treatise in the French style, with each of the ten chapters divided into numbered propositions: its concentration on the sections of the sphere renders the treatise as much one of geometry as of horology. The author, a native of Abbeville, was a monk of the reformed Cistercian order, the Congregation of the Feuillants. The text was first published at Paris in 1641, and reprinted a number of times in the 17th century: the figures in the present manuscript closely follow those in the published editions.
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