Giordano Ruffo, Arte de conoscere la natura dei cavalli
Contents 1. Leaf i r-iii v Index for the Ruffo text Begins: 'Qui se acomemça le rubrice de le lesione ouer passione outer infimitade de li caualli...' Leaves iv r-vi v blank 2. ff. 1r-49v Giordano Ruffo, Arte de conoscere la natura dei cavalli Incipit: 'Qui se acomença la cirugia ouer la medisine deli caualli. Con ço sia cossa che tra tutti li animali dal creator de tutte le cose...' Explicit: '...Inlora el dicto cauallo com gran fatigha se guarisse e com gran pena, e cossi finisse lo nostro libro. Questa opera de questo libro compose un caualiero de calabria el quale aueue nome Messer Jordane ruffo faniero del Imperadore Frederigo Imperador de Roma....E possa prouala questa marscalcia de y caualli col dicto Imperadore per uno grandissime temponi le quazle demoro en le suo corte e qui finisse. Amen.' ff. 50r-v blank
1 volume 6 ll. (last 3 bl.). + XLIX ff. + 1 bl. 4to. 22 1/2 x 15 cm. On vellum. original oak boards wormed and loose, back and leather covers wanting. Written in a rounded gothic script, 30 lines to a page Large illuminated initial on fol. 1 in gold and colours with floreated marginal decoration. Other initials in alternate blue and red, and red and yellow. Paragarph marks in alternate blue and red, headings and the foliation also in red.
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Giordano Ruffo, 'Arte de conoscere la natura dei cavalli'
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