Inventions of military machines and other devices
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Description
- Title
- Inventions of military machines and other devices
- Creator
- Rabbards, Ralph
- Contributor
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Jenkins, Rhys--Ownership
Rabbards, Raphe - Published / Created
- [1580-1590]
- Abstract
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Drawings and plans for various implements and instruments, including printing presses.
Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England after 1591.
- Description
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Author possibly an English military adventurer who traveled through the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy.
Binding: contemporary brown calf, with gold tooling of Lyonese style with semis of eaglets.
Descriptions of military machines are accompanied by colored illustrations.
Ex libris Rhys Jenkins. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976.
In the preface to "The Compound of Alchemy" (Osborn fa16), Rabbards notes that he has "these fortie yeares amongst manie other most commendable exercises and inventions of so warlike Engines, founde out divers devices of rare service, both for Sea and land" and expresses his intention to "impart some other rare experiments of Distillations and Fire-Workes of great service, not hitherto committed in writing or put in practise by any of our nation." This apparently refers to Osborn a8, the only known copy of the work.
Raphe (or Ralph) Rabbards, born slightly before 1531, published "The Compound of Alchemy" by George Ripley (see Osborn fa16) in 1591.
Signature on f. 1 of W. Bayntun, Gray's Inn. - Extent
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1 v. (92 ff.) 11 cm. x 16.6 cm.
color ill. - Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Osborn a8
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Hand coloring
Illustrations
Manuscripts - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
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Jenkins, Rhys--Ownership
Rabbards, Raphe - Subject (Topic)
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Measuring instruments
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Military art and science--Early works to 1800
Military art and science--Great Britain--History--16th century
Military art and science--Technological innovations--History
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Raphe Rabbards, Inventions of Military Machines and Other Devices. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9415226
- Object ID (OID)
- 2028961
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.osborn.a8.htm