Marescalcia equorum

Description

Title: Marescalcia equorum
Creator: Ruffo, Giordano, -1256
Published / Created: 1454.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by Ieronimo Sandei in fere-humanistica for the introduction and rubrics, and in humanistic cursive for the text.
Historiated initial on f. 3r, 9-line, St. George and the dragon, curling foliage, mauve, red, and green, with gold and white and yellow highlights, on gold ground, edged in black, in a loose and painterly style. 3- and 2-line initials, blue or red with elaborate red or light purple penwork respectively. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Rubrics throughout.
Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Covered in brown leather, blind-tooled with concentric borders. Four clasp-and-catch fastenings. Modern paper pastedowns and flyleaves, the former covering an unidentified printed text in German.
Provenance: Obtained from Harper's by David Wagstaff; his gift to Yale in 1944.
Extent: ff. i + 86 + i : 200 x 140 (146 x 85) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ruffo, Giordano.
Subject (Topic): Animal culture
Horses
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Ruffo, Giordano
Animal culture
Horses > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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