Beinecke MS 458               Italy, 1608
Delle imboccature de' i cavalli

1.  f. i recto  [Title-page:]  Delle imboccature de' i Caualli:  17 Maij
Anno 1608. In Siena et Fiorenza.  Carlo Filippo di Vuelden.  f. i verso blank

2.  ff. 1r-80r  Eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of
various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book.
Drawings numbered 1-80 along upper edge of each leaf; versos blank.  ff.
81r-82v blank

3.  ff. 83r-85v  Descriptive index for drawings (beginning:  1. Canone alla
Calabrese con la guardia dritta.  Questa e la prima Briglia che si mette a' i
Polledri.  Briglia che non offende la bocca e le guardie...); incomplete, since
index concludes with entry for no. 78.  ff. 86r-97v blank

     Paper (watermarks:  similar in design to Briquet Armoiries-Pomme de pin
2118, but with a majuscule M sitting on the top of left and right upper
corners, and with four divisions for the tree base), ff. i + 97, 423 x 285
mm., ff. 1r, 84r-87v:  single vertical bounding lines in ink.
     I^^4 (ff. i, 1-3), II^^8, III^^4, IV^^8, V^^4, VI^^8, VII^^4, VIII^^10, IX^^4,
X^^8, XI^^4, XII^^8, XIII^^4, XIV^^8, XV^^6, XVI^^8 (-7, 8).
     Written in small neat italic.
     Binding:  s. xviii-xix.  Vellum case; stubs of two green ties.

Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden whose name appears on f. 1r.
"180" in blue crayon on front cover and on front pastedown in lower left corner,
and on f. 1r, lower right corner; "108. a. 36" in pencil on f. 2r, upper margin.
Large oval white tag on spine with "F/97" in ink corresponds to "F 97" and
inscription, "Riss [?] unterschiedliche fuer Pferd-Geschirr" (s. xix) on small
piece of paper tipped to front pastedown.  Acquired from the Sporting Gallery in
1967 with the Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund.

Barbara A. Shailor