Delle imboccature de'i cavalli

Description

Title: Delle imboccature de'i cavalli
Published / Created: 1608.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden
Description: In Italian.
Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Armoiries - Pomme de pin 2118, but with a majuscule M sitting on the top of left and right upper corners, and with four divisions for the tree base.
Script: Written in small neat italic.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Vellum case; stubs of two green ties.
Provenance: Acquired from the Sporting Gallery in 1967 with the Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund.
Extent: ff. i + 97 ; 423 x 285 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Italian

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 458
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Genre: Early works to 1800
Drawings Italy 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Horses
Manuscripts, Medieval
Pattern books
Subjects: Horses > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Pattern books
Italy > 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Delle Imboccature De'i Cavalli. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.