Pferd-Arzt

Collection of veterinary receipts, etc.: in German. The section from the beginning to fol. 104 contains 75 full-page water colour drawings of bits, bridles, etc., a stable, illustrations of horse training, one of which (fol. 27) is folding: these are mostly signed 'F' and include a picture showing the administration of a medicine by means of a funnel (fol. 31), and another of blood-letting (fol. 29). The original compiler's work ends at fol. 281, and contains 1160 numbered receipts: it is followed by additions by several hands, inserted receipts, etc. On fol. 3 and on the fly-leaf at the beginning the name 'Von Kupperwolff' has been stamped.

Early 18th century

1 volume 372 ff. fol. 32 × 20 cm. Original quarter-calf binding. Ff. 1, 2, 5, 282, 371 are wanting. Ff. 105-136, 291-372 are blank.

Purchased 1911.

Inside the upper cover is an armorial book-plate, not positively unidentified, but possibly that of the Mooyen Family of Harderwyck.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).