Giordano Ruffo, Le medicine de' cavalli: diseases and remedies only

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Contents

1. f. 1r Table of Contents for the Ruffo text, extending to Chapter 15 only.

ff. 1v-2v blank.

2. ff. 3r-7r Full table of contents for the Ruffo text.

ff. 7v-8r blank

3. f. 8v Poem of 16 lines

Incipit: 'A voler che un Cauallo sia perfecto'

Explicit: 'Piccole orechie e lochi quanto un Boe'.

4. ff. 9r-56v Giordano Ruffo, Le medicine de' cavalli: in a version containing the sections on diseases and remedies only.

There are 137 chapters, and the opening chapters of the complete treatise are omitted: these contain general observations on horses, their care and hygiene, etc. The title inscribed on the spine is 'Segreti per cavalli'. Titles in Latin, with main text in Italian

Incipit: 'In hoc uolumine continentur diuerse infir/mitates accidentales Equorum vnde proueniant et remedia opportuna. Et primo de verme. Quando appare che lo petto del cauallo...'

Explicit: '..sin che limphia appearera et questo piu uolte e experimentato'.

ff. 57r-59v blank

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