Beinecke MS 161                                                           Italy, 1454
Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum

     1. ff. 1r-2r    Tabula libri quarti de generatione equorum. De
     generatione natiuitate et nutritura pullorum. Cap. j. de laqueatione
     pullorum. Cap. 2...de cognitione equorum et pulcritudine et tempora.
     cap. 83. f. 2v blank

     2. ff. 3r-36r    Incipit liber de generatione equorum et de necessitate
     pullorum et nutritura. Anno domini. 1454. Pirani. Cum inter cetera
     animalia uiui hominis deputata equus sit nobilius...De generatione
     natiuitate et nutritura pullorum Rubrica. Capitulo primo. Equus debet
     gigni in stalone assidue studiose ac diligenter custodito...ut subito
     dolore et angustia testiculorum procedat. Curantur equi restiuj si
     ipsorum testiculj abscindantur.

          The text differs considerably from that in Beinecke MS 136.

     3. f. 86v    Miscellaneous obituary notices (mostly illegible) dated
     ca. 1695.

          Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 86 + i (paper), 200 x 140 (146 x 85)
     mm. Written in 32 long lines; frame-ruled in crayon; prickings at
     corners of written space.
          I^^2, II-III^^12, IV^^10. Catchwords, with penwork decorations, in
     center of lower margin.
          Written by Ieronimo Sandei in fere-humanistica for the
     introduction and rubrics, and in humanistic cursive for the text (see
     below for scribe).
          Historiated initial on f. 3r, 9-line, St. George and the dragon,
     curling foliage, mauve, red, and green, with gold and white and yellow
     highlights, on gold ground, edged in black, in a loose and painterly
     style. 3- and 2-line initials, blue or red with elaborate red or light
     purple penwork respectively. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Rubrics
     throughout.
          Binding: s. xvii-xviii. Covered in brown leather, blind-tooled
     with concentric borders. Four clasp-and-catch fastenings. Modern paper
     pastedowns and flyleaves, the former covering an unidentified printed
     text in German.

          Written in Pirano (near Pola) in 1454 by Ieronimo Sandei, who
     incorporated his name, as well as the place and date, into the penwork
     border decoration of an initial on f. 26r (see also article 2 above);
     perhaps the same scribe as Colophons, v. 2, no. 7181, Hieronymus de
     Sandellis. Obtained from Harper's by David Wagstaff (bookplate); his
     gift to Yale in 1944.

     secundo folio: [table, f. 2] de inflatura crurium
          [text, f. 4] mansuete tractetur

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1902, no. 7; Faye and Bond, p. 36, no.
     161.
          M. G. Wynne, "The Wagstaff Sporting Books and Manuscripts,"
     Gazette 20 (1946) p. 12.

     Barbara A. Shailor