Bod-Inc: R-146
Ruffo, Giordano
Tractatus de morbo et sanitate equorum [Italian] Arte di conoscere la natura dei cavalli (trans. Gabriele Bruno).
Analysis of Content
a2r Ruffo, Giordano: Arte di conoscere la natura dei cavalli. Translated by Gabriele Bruno. Incipit: ‘[E]ssendo tra tuti animali da lomnipotente dio creati a lusso et vtile de lhomo . . .’ See J.-L. Gaulin, ‘Giordano Ruffo et l'art vétérinaire', Micrologus, 2 (1994), 185-98, at 195.
h2r Bruno, Gabriele: [Letter addressed to] Giovanni Brandolino. Incipit: ‘Habiando tolto vna picola fatica et delecteuole . . . Dated Venice, 17 Dec. 1492.
h2v Bruno, Gabriele: ‘Sonetus'. Incipit: ‘Chi vol hauer del cauallo bon gouerno cognoscere sua natura et soi defecti'; sonnet.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis, [1493]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–h4.
Illustrations: Woodcut on a1r, entitled ‘Sancto Alo': see Sander.
References
ISTC: ir00350000
Hain: HC 14034;
Goff: Goff R‑350;
BMC: BMC V 512;
Proctor: Pr 5473;
Others: CIBN R‑228; Essling 698; Sander 6621; Sheppard 4444. Microfiche: Unit 15: Medical Incunabula Part V, MI 49.
LCN: 14027110
Copies
Copy number: R-146(1)
Wanting the blank leaf h4.
Binding: Nineteenth-century purple cloth. Blue-edged leaves.
Size: 223 × 160 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 216 × 151 mm.
A few marginal notes, translating words into Latin, in an early hand in light brown ink.
Provenance: Peter Wedelicki (†1544); inscription on a1r: ‘Petri Vedelitij Obornicen̄'. ‘Ruffo Sancto alo (1491) 4°'. Purchased from Albert Cohn for 36 Marks; see Library Bills (1884), no. 186.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 5.69.
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