[Livro de la Menscalcia de li cavalli]

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Accession number:

MS M.735

Title:

[Livro de la Menscalcia de li cavalli]

Created:

Italy, perhaps in Apulia, early 15th cent.

Binding:

Late 15th-century stamped brown morocco, clasps missing.

Description:

108 leaves (2 columns, 56 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 364 x 265 mm

Provenance:

Giovanni Maria della Salla (alias Messer Ponteghino), master of the stables of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara; purchased from L.C. Harper in 1928.

Notes:

Ms. miscellaneous treatises, mostly veterinary, written and illuminated in southern Italy, perhaps in Apulia, early 15th century.
Texts: ex libris of Giovanni Maria della Salla (fol. 1); drawings (fols. 2-5); Laurentius Rusius, Livro de la menscalcia de li cavalli (fols. 6-48v); recipes for unguents (fol. 48v); Tractatus acque vite (fols. 49v-53); calendar for the south Adriatic coast of Italy (fols. 56-61v); Tractatus de morbis naturalibus et accidentalibus ac signis et curis equorum (fols. 64-107).
The author of the Tractatus de morbis naturalibus et accidentalibus ac signis et curis equorum apparently was inspired by Hippocrates--Cf. PML files.
Decoration: 8 full-page colored drawings, including a blood-letting horse and a zodiacal horse; 151 textual illustrations.
Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.735 and London, British Library. MS Add. 15097 are stylistically earlier than Naples, Bib. Gerolamini. MS Cf.2.7.--cf PML files.

Script:

cursive script

Language:

Italian and Latin

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Century:

15th century

Genres:

Illuminated manuscripts

Vellum (parchment)

Morocco bindings (Binding)