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| Country of Location: |
Country of Location
Switzerland
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| Location: |
Location Schlatt |
| Library / Collection: |
Library / Collection
Eisenbibliothek
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| Shelfmark: | Shelfmark Mss 57 |
| Manuscript Title: | Manuscript Title Prozhekt mosta chrez reku Nevu dlja udobnosti prokhozhdenija su-dov vo vsjakoe vremja 1802 [transcription]. |
| Caption: | Caption Paper · 24 ff. · 48 x 34 cm · 1802 |
| Language: |
Language
Russian |
| Manuscript Summary: | Manuscript Summary This large-format manuscript (the translation of the Russian title is “Bridge-building project across the Neva River to accommodate the passage of ships at all times, 1802”) presents a bridge-building project across the Neva River in St. Petersburg. Following the title page with a decorative frame in a gray color wash (fol. 2) and the table of contents (fol. 3), there are twelve panels of watercolored drawings that give an overview and a detailed view of the project. Seven illustrations are two-sided, one of them has a fold-out page. All texts in this manuscript are in Russian and in Cyrillic script. — The bridge was designed by Charles Baird (1766–1843), a Scottish engineer who had set up a business for metal casting, machine construction and shipbuilding in St. Petersburg and who had built a cast-iron bridge nearby in 1805/06. The manuscript’s bridge project, however, calls for a combination of a floating bridge and a drawbridge: the floating bridge, resting on pontoons, splits into two branches, which end in two drawbridges near the shore (fol. 4a-5), so that it is possible to cross the bridge even while a ship passes beneath it. Other panels show, for example, the lifting mechanism hidden in the pillars (fol. 14a, 16, 17) and one of the boat-like pontoons anchored in the bed of the Neva River (fol. 20a-21). – The manuscript was purchased in Copenhagen in 1978. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | DOI (Digital Object Identifier 10.5076/e-codices-ebs-0057 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-ebs-0057) |
| Permanent link: | Permanent link http://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/ebs/0057 |
| IIIF Manifest URL: |
IIIF Manifest URL
http://e-codices.unifr.ch/metadata/iiif/ebs-0057/manifest.json
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| How to quote: | How to quote Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek, Mss 57: Prozhekt mosta chrez reku Nevu dlja udobnosti prokhozhdenija su-dov vo vsjakoe vremja 1802 [transcription]. (http://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/ebs/0057). |
| Online Since: | Online Since 10/08/2015 |
| Rights: | Rights Images:
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| Document Type: |
Document Type
Manuscript |
| Century: |
Century
19th century |
| Dated: |
Dated
1802 |
| Decoration: |
Decoration
Other, Full Page, Tinted Drawing |
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