Le medicien de' cavalli

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Le medicien de' cavalli.

The 6 ll. at the beginning are on different paper and probably a later 16th century addition. The water-mark of the main text seems to be Briquet No. 6664, assigned to Florenece 1508. 

Fol. 1 [C]Oncio sia cosa che intra tucti li animali creati/dall' altissimo iddio creatore.../.../Nullun animal sia piu nobile del Cauallo./.../(line 9) IO Ruffo di chalabria chaualieri che fuji di messer lo Im/peradore Federigo. Io ho prouato diligente mente/tucte quella cose che al cauallo sapparetiene di fare/.../(line 16) Imprimamente e da uedere del creatione e del/nasciemento del cauallo... 69, line 22 [U]Nguento da fare buon piedi alli cauagli/ch' auesseno male ungnie di rogne et/(fol. 69v) et [sic] o di crepacci.../.../(line 8)...et ungnie doue sta bisogno/et guerea tosto amen. Below this, obliterated in ink, is the charm against worms, headed 'AD occidendum verme [sic] quod [sic] habet equs [sic] dicat semel/pater noster. Hoc dicto dicatur in nomine pa/[tris]... The remainder is illegible. Four unfoliated leaves, the last blank, containing an Index by a later 16th century hand.

At the beginning, the first leaf contains a note on Ruffo by an early 17th century hand, and the second, a veterinary receipt by a 16th century scribe.

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