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The document is signed by Divan President Abd-Allah Cherqaoui and Secretary Mohammed el-Mohdy
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The mounted fragments provided a convenient record of available patterns and colourways and served both practical and commercial purposes within the circulation of textile designs
Particularly noteworthy are: (1) the memorandum’s consistent emphasis on hydrography and tides as operational variables (rather than mere descriptive geography)
Da Vinci, Traité de la peinture, [1796]. Missionaries Königliche Französische TapezereijenLeonardo Da Vinci's painting manual Leonardo da Vinci; Nicolas Poussin (1594 1665) [ills, after]; Roland Frart de Chambray (1606 1676) [transl.]; anonymous [edit.]. Traite de la peinture. Paris, Deterville, printed by Crapelet, An IV [1796]. 8. [VIII], LIX, [1], 333, [1 blank] pp. With 34 plates (some folding) and several woodcut diagrams in text. Later (circa 1900) vellum, new endpapers. Third French edition of Da Vinci's influential and famous