Cavalry.- Melzo (Lodovico, Italian cavalry officer) Traitté de la cavallerie du cavalier Melze..., manuscript in French, drophead title, ruled throughout in red, modern antique style boards, [France], [early 17th century].
Cavalry.- Melzo (Lodovico, Italian cavalry officer, a Knight of St John of Jerusalem, fought against the Turks at the Siege of Rhodes and with the Spanish against the Calvinists in the Low Countries, 1567-1617) Traitté de la cavallerie du cavalier Melze..., manuscript in French, 64pp., drophead title, ruled throughout in red, f.25 small hole near head, affecting a few letters verso, without loss of sense, dark water-stain on upper corners, lighter staining within text, although more pronounced on last few pp., lightly browned, modern antique style boards, folio, [France], [early 17th century].
⁂ An early French abridgement of Melzo's influential military cavalry treatise, Regoli militari sopra il governo e servitio della cavalleria (Antwerp, 1611). Also published in French in 1615 as Des règles militaires du chevalier Melzo, this manuscript is not a copy of either edition but probably a version compiled by a French military student. The manuscript follows the arrangement of the five books of the printed versions, but without the illustrations. The five books comprise, I. The composition of a cavalry regiment; II. Accompanying other regiments and companies; III. Orders; IV. Combat; V. Generalities.
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Cavalry.- Melzo (Lodovico, Italian cavalry officer, a Knight of St John of Jerusalem, fought against the Turks at the Siege of Rhodes and with the Spanish against the Calvinists in the Low Countries, 1567-1617) Traitté de la cavallerie du cavalier Melze..., manuscript in French, 64pp., drophead title, ruled throughout in red, f.25 small hole near head, affecting a few letters verso, without loss of sense, dark water-stain on upper corners, lighter staining within text, although more pronounced on last few pp., lightly browned, modern antique style boards, folio, [France], [early 17th century].
⁂ An early French abridgement of Melzo's influential military cavalry treatise, Regoli militari sopra il governo e servitio della cavalleria (Antwerp, 1611). Also published in French in 1615 as Des règles militaires du chevalier Melzo, this manuscript is not a copy of either edition but probably a version compiled by a French military student. The manuscript follows the arrangement of the five books of the printed versions, but without the illustrations. The five books comprise, I. The composition of a cavalry regiment; II. Accompanying other regiments and companies; III. Orders; IV. Combat; V. Generalities.