Manuscripts
Livro de curiozidades modocomo sefazem rellogios de varias fabricas
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- Description
- A horological treatise on the art of clock-making, dated several times in the text 1788 and 1792, in Portuguese; with numerous diagrams, manuscript text in one hand with additional technical notes in a different hand. The diagrams, many with stamped numerals, illustrate clock works, mechanisms, hands and decorative external elements, also pendula, many quite ornate; there is also a hand-made color chart. The diagrams are drawn in brown ink and are partly colored in gray. The name "Antonio d'Oliveira Marquez" and other name variations appear randomly throughout the volume but seem to be the writing of a younger person. Bound in contemporary unlettered mottled sheep, with loose covers.
- Production date
- Late 18th century.
- Call number
- mssHM 82904
- Provenance
- Acquired by the Burndy Library from Robert H. Rubin - Books.
- Dimensions
- 17 cm :
