Composition de toutes sortes de feux artificiels

1599

The Netherlands

Manuscript book

Middle French, 1400-1600
Dutch

Treatise

68 leaves, 19.4 x 16 cm; Vellum over cardboard binding

Secreteray hand

Tables and drawings accompany Dutch text

Art and Culture

Fireworks

Formerly cataloged as Drake MS-1. Gift of the Drake family to the Fisher Library, 1998; Leaves 2-13 and 60-65 in French, and leaves 14-50 in Dutch; Blank leaves 51-59 have not been photographed; "Instructie ende ordre voor de Meesters van de vuyrwercken," printed order of instructions to makers of fireworks, dated 1599, pasted on back cover

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Fisher Rare Book MSS 03105

Drake, Stillman, 1910-1993, former owner

University of Toronto

Intermediate

1550-1599