Libro di mascalcia

Description

Title: Libro di mascalcia
Creator: Ruffo, Giordano
Contributor: Ruffo, Giordano
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: 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.
On folio 1recto 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.
Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda).
Extent: ff. 31; parchment; 295 x 215 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Sicilian

Format: text
Genre: Annotations
Historiated initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics
Material: parchment
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Ruffo, Giordano
Subject (Topic): Horses--Early works to 1800
Italian literature--To 1400
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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

Orbis Record: 9886711
Object ID (OID): 11007496
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/ms944.pdf