Marescalcia equorum

Description

Title: Marescalcia equorum
Creator: Ruffo, Giordano, -1256
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (watermarks: unidentified, in gutter; outer and inner bifolios reinforced with parchment strips) of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by one person in round gothic bookhand; additions by a later hand.
Small plain initials, in red, mark beginning of each section; headings, paragraph marks, some strokes on initials in red.
Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on two tawed, slit straps laid in a channel and nailed in square, flush wooden boards. The spine is square. Covered in reddish brown leather with corner turn-in tongues. Decorated with a blind-tooled panel of interlaced rope work and green dots in circles inside concentric borders. A catch on the lower board and a cloth strap (velvet?) attached to the upper with star-headed nails. Strap wanting, otherwise intact.
Provenance: Belonged to David Wagstaff; presented to Yale by Mrs. David Wagstaff in 1943.
Extent: ff. 36 : 217 x 152 (157 x 101) 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: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ruffo, Giordano.
Subject (Topic): Animal culture
Horses
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Ruffo, Giordano
Animal culture
Horses > Early works to 1800
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
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.