. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . m hsSPRING GUN Made bv Antonio Petrini for King Charles I. This volume consists of 122 pages, iiin. by 7|in., bound in vellumboards, the paper bearing a water mark of the tre monti. The hand-writing of the text is very clear and there are no erasions or corrections in II, 92. II, 127. 90 THE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER OF FLINT LOCK. (From Arte Ftibrilc.) the whole treatise. A number of Armourers marks are given in the text,drawn with the same ink and, in addition, there are several illustrationsdrawn in a permanent black ink
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . m hsSPRING GUN Made bv Antonio Petrini for King Charles I. This volume consists of 122 pages, iiin. by 7|in., bound in vellumboards, the paper bearing a water mark of the tre monti. The hand-writing of the text is very clear and there are no erasions or corrections in II, 92. II, 127. 90 THE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER OF FLINT LOCK. (From Arte Ftibrilc.) the whole treatise. A number of Armourers marks are given in the text,drawn with the same ink and, in addition, there are several illustrationsdrawn in a permanent black ink showing gunlocks and mechanical contri-vances, many of which are carefully executed. A similar copy exists in the IMagliabecchi Library, Florence, which hasbeen quoted in Demmins Arms and Armour, but this only contains the textand the Armourers marks and has none of the illustrations. It may, therefore, be surmised that eitherthe Florentine copy is the roughdraft, or that it is a late copy ofthe work under consideration,which is obviously the completedtreatise. The preface, of the usualsycophantic order in fashion atthis period, is succeeded by adissertation on iron, the countriesin which it is found, and themethods of tempering and work-ing it. In discussing this questionPetrini states that he intends to givethe marks of all armourers, but the magnitude of the task has evidently
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