Mascalcia equorum

Description

Title: Mascalcia equorum
Creator: Ruffo, Giordano, -1256
Published / Created: 14th century
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of an Italian translation of Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum
Description: In Italian.
Script: copied by one hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata. Headings and paragraph marks in red. Yellow heightening of the majuscules. 2-line half inset flourished initials in red with penwork and penwork extensions in the margin or in the intercolumn, with guide letters.
Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum, missing the beginning. The same text is also found in Beinecke MS 459.
Binding: paper binding.
Extent: ff. 40: 225 x 167 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

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

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