Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.701

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  • Other label of the document :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.701
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.701
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.701
    • Wellcome Library, MS.701
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
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  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 6 leaves (last 3 bl.). + XLIX folios + 1 blank 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 foleave 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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  • 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

  • This MS. contains 131 chapters. The work was first printed in Venice in 1493. [B.M.C. v. 512].
  • Purchased at Sotheby's 5/12/1905, Lot 452.

Bibliography

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  • Montinaro, Antonio. 'Per la tradizione del de Medicina equorum di Giordano Ruffo (con un elenco dei testimoni manoscritti)', Medioevo Letterario d'Italia: Rivista internazionale di filologia, linguistica e letteratura 7 (2010), pp. 29-64

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