Petit traitté de la fortification moderne
By: composé par Monr. Chauuot, celebre mathematicien parisien ; tout exprez pour l'instruction de Monsieur le baron D'Obdam seigneur de Wassenäer du temps qu'il apprenoit ses exercises à Paris
Contributors: Wassenaer, Jacob van, 1610-1666, dedicatee; Michaelius, Pompeius, ill; Lathrop C. Harper, Inc
Language: fre
Format: [manuscript]
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Fortification; Military engineering; Early works to 1800; Siege warfare
Other titles: Fortification moderne
Description: Manuscript handwritten in ink on paper, apparently based on Jacques Chauvet's Petit traicté de l'art militaire, with extensive hand-drawn, chiefly colored, illustrations.
Notes: Inscription at the foot of the t.p.: "In perpetuam amoris ac observantiae memoriam erga carissimum suu[m] Maecenatem haec depinxit Pompeius Michaelius."

The text is keyed by side-notes to the various illustrated figures.

SCDIRB copy 39088010382596, according to a ms. pencil note on front free endpaper, was transferred from NMAH Div. of Military History, Lathrop C. Harper (the N.Y. rare book firm, presumably the source of this manuscript), accession no. 167989M.

SCDIRB copy has contemporary blind-ruled full leather binding with raised bands and gilt-tooled spine; 4 blank leaves are inserted at the end of the volume.
Table of contents: title: 1. Maximes de l'art de se deffendre; title: 2. De la fortification; title: 3. De la maniere de tracer une fortification reguliere; title: 4. De l'attaque; title: 5. De la deffence; title: 6. De la garde des places; title: 7. De la fortification irreguliere; title: 8. Fortifier un angle Ie. proposition; title: 9. Autre methode de fortifier un angle obtus á remettre en son lieu; title: 10. II. proposition, fortifier une ligne.