Libro di mascalcia

Description

Title: Libro di mascalcia
Creator: Ruffo, Giordano, -1256
Published / Created: 14th century
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on goat parchment of Giordano Ruffo di Calabria's De medicina equorum (Mascalcia) in Sicilian dialect
Description: Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda).
On folio 1r there is a 17-line historiated initial, showing the author presenting his work to Emperor Frederick II on horseback. The initial has been erased and the scene is hardly recognizable.
Binding: 16th century light brown leather over wooden boards, both covers blind-tooled with a double frame of multiple fillets, the inner frame divided by two diagonals. Small engraved bronze bosses at the four corners of the inner frames. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front board, with decorated brass catches on the rear board. Rebacked.
In Sicilian.
Extent: ff. 31 : 295 x 215 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Sicilian Italian

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ruffo, Giordano.
Subject (Topic): Horses
Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Ruffo, Giordano
Horses > Early works to 1800
Italian literature > To 1400
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Giordano Ruffo, Libro di Mascalcia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.