Beinecke MS 488               Italy, 1456
Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum (It. tr.), etc.

1.  ff. 1r-28v  [Preface:]  Como lo cauallo fo creato dalato [sic for
da l'alto?] creatore del cilo et dela tera per uso dela uma [sic for
umana?] generacione...[text:]  In prima dico che lo
chaualo di esere generato da stalone gouene...[f. 28v:]  Conpito e la opera che
fece lo bon chaualiero cha la [?] erse lo qual sape ben tuta la malscalcharia.
deo gracias amen 1456 a di primo feer [?].

     Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum, in an anonymous Italian translation.
Numbering of chapters (contemporary Arabic numerals in margins) begins at
section de lo uerme and runs 1-62 in text, but 1-64 in table on ff.
5r-6v.

2.  ff. 28v-30r  In nomine de pare e delo fio e delo spiritu sancto amen.  a
lo nome del nostro signor ihesus christo ocidemo questo uermo...Iob vermes
habuit et si habui tamen mortui sunt misericordia ihesu christi et si sunt in
massa...mitantur.  Amen.  fiat.  fiat.  fiat.

     Miscellaneous recipes and prayers, in Italian and Latin, for various
ailments, including worms.

3.  f. 30r-v  de camora 1. de coperta de ochi 2. ...de cognosere un chaualo
che dieue esere rio o bono 65.

     Table of contents for art. 4.

4.  ff. 30v-36v  [C]hi uol guarir un chaualo de camora faza cussi pya onca .3.
de solfo pisto...La inciodadura si e colpa del maistro finito libero [sic]
sit laus et gloria christo amen.

     Unidentified series of recipes for the diseases of horses and advice
concerning horses, numbered with Arabic numerals in margin, 1-67.

5.  ff. 36v-38r  Additional recipes, including lists of herbs for various
illnesses; a later hand has added "Nota" signs in margins.  f. 38v blank

     Paper (unidentified bull's head in gutter), ff. ii (paper) + 38 (contemporary
foliation 1-36, modern 37-38) + iii (paper), 219 x 148 (163 x 105) mm.  Ca.
25 lines; ruled in hard point or lead. I^^6, II-IV^^10, V^^2.
     Written in a poorly formed Italian notarial script; notes in contemporary
cursive hands.
     Plain initial, 5-line, in red and black, at beginning of art. 1; initial
strokes and rubrics for ff. 1r-9v only.
     Binding:  s. xix.  Limp vellum case.  Stamped on upper cover:  "Medecine
des chevaux/ manuscrit du XV siecle."

Written in Italy in 1456 (see art. 1); early modern provenance unknown.
Purchased from
Myers and Company, London, by David Wagstaff (bookplate); gift of David and
Isabelle Tilford Wagstaff in 1944.

secundo folio:  [segura]mente pora

Bibliography:  De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1906, no. 23 (while in Wagstaff
collection).

Barbara A. Shailor