- Creator:
- Rabbards, Ralph
- Published / Created:
- [1580-1590]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a8
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Drawings and plans for various implements and instruments, including printing presses. and Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England after 1591.
- Description:
- 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., and Signature on f. 1 of W. Bayntun, Gray's Inn.
- Subject (Name):
- Jenkins, Rhys--Ownership and Rabbards, Raphe
- Subject (Topic):
- 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, and Military art and science--Technological innovations--History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Inventions of military machines and other devices
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