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Detailed record for Additional 15097
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| Author |
Giordano Ruffo and others |
| Title |
Livro de la Menscalcia de le cavalli, consisting of a Latin treatise on horse medicine translated by Lorenzo Rusio (ff. 5-52v); a liturgical calendar containing Sicilian saints (ff. 53-57v); the Hippiatrica, a Greek treatise on horses, in an abridged version or epitome in Italian (ff. 60-104); Tractatus aque vite sive aque ardentis, a treatise on medicinal and distilled waters for human patients (ff. 104v-108v) |
| Origin |
Italy, Apulia |
| Date |
1460-70 |
| Language |
Italian, Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
8 full page coloured ink-drawings (ff. 1, 1v, 2, 2v, 3, 3v, 4v, 59). 158 column-width coloured ink drawings illustrating the Hippatrica (ff. 60-103), frequently two to a page. Initials in red with penwork decoration in purple or in blue with penwork decoration in red at the beginnings of chapters. KL letters in red and blue in the calendar (ff. 53-57v). Rubrics in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
350 x 250 (260 x 170) mostly written in two columns (ff. 5-52; ff. 104v-106v) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 109 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling |
| Provenance |
Giuseppe Valetta of Naples (d. 1714), probably belonged to him, according to a note on f. [ii], referring to his catalogue in the Giornale de Letterati d'Italia vol. 24 (1716), p. 89.
Added notes in 16th -19th century cursive scripts (ff. 108v-109v).
Jean-Baptiste Huzard (b.,1755, d. 1838), French veterinarian, in the catalogue of his library, issued by his daughter (see, Mme Veuve. Bouchard-Hazard, Catalogue des livres, dessins et estampes de la bibliotheque de feu M. J-B. Huzard, 3 vols (Paris, 1842)).
Purchased by the British Museum from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844. |
| Notes |
A table of contents and colophon are inserted on ff. 49-51.The colophon (f. 51) claims that the Ruffo text was translated from Greek into Latin by the Dominican friar, Antonio da Pera, and attributes the Italian translation to one Boniface of Calabria, otherwise unknown.
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, MS Ital. 464 and New York, Pierpoint Morgan Library MS 735 contain the same texts in Italian and the latter has a closely-related scheme of illustration (online descriptions and images at http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/thumbs/143827 [accessed 25.7.22]). |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), 1844, p. 87.
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, part 2 in two volumes (Berlin: Gerb. Mann, 1980), II, pl. 650 ibid..
Anne McCabe, A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine: the sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 294-95, 332.
Yvonne Poulle-Drieux, Les chevaux malades au Moyen Age. Leurs maladies, qui les soigne et comment (Florence: Galluzzo, 2015).
Baudouin Van den Abeele, 'Cautériser les oiseaux de chasse : pratiques et représentations du VIIIe au XVIe siècle', in Chevaux, chiens, faucons. L’art vétérinaire antique et médiéval à travers les sources écrites, archéologiques et iconographiques (Louvain: Institut d'etudes Medievales, 2017), pp. 401-23 (p. 411) .
Stavros Lazaris, Art et science vétérinaire à Byzance. Formes et fonctions de l’image hippiatrique (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020) |
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f. 1
Wounded horse |
f. 1v
Blood-letting points on a horse |
f. 2
Ampelius tempted by a woman |
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f. 2v
Lorenzo Rusio |
f. 3
Wounded horse |
f. 3v
Horse in wooden frame |
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f. 4v
Lorenzo Rusio and Scribe |
f. 59
Zodiac horse |
f. 60
Fevered horse |
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f. 60v
Fluid administered through the nostril |
f. 61v
Horses coughing |
f. 62v
Horse with horn and flaming urn |
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f. 63
A figure in a loin cloth and lion skin pours liquid through ... |
f. 66v
Two horses and a hybrid monk-lion |
f. 67
Two horses, a man with pincers and a furry animal |
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f. 68
Two horses an a man with a tube |
f. 69v
Two horses given liquid |
f. 70v
Horse urinating |
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f. 71v
Two horses |
f. 72
A horse with a blanket |
f. 73
Horse defecates |
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f. 74
Two horses |
f. 74v
Two horses, one lying on its back |
f. 75
Two horses |
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f. 76
Two horses |
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