Beinecke MS 679

Ruffo, Giordano (or Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250).  Liber
marescalcie equorum, tr. anon. into Italian.

Italian.  Italy, ca. 1350.

1.  ff. 1r-38v  Incipit liber mariscalcie equorum / Con ciosia cosa che in
tratucti li animali creati dal altissimo maestro. creatore di tucte le cose
le quali siano sopto posti allumana generatione nullo animale sia piu nobile
delo cavallo...De creatione e nactivitate equorum: In permamente dico dela
cavallo sue ingenerare de lo stallone... [Explicit, ff. 38r-38v:] ...et
provola questa mariscalcia deli cavalli colo imperadore per grande tempo
dimorando collui in sua corte.  Explicit liber mariscalcie equorum.  Deo
gratias.
	Giordano Ruffo.  Liber marescalcia equorum, with additional notes in
	a gothic cursive script on the care of horses on ff. 38v-39r [Printed in
	Goff R-350; E. Gizonta, Storia della Letteratura Italiana (Turin, 1928),
	p. 222].

2.  f. 40v  Table of contents.

Parchment.  ff. i (paper) +40, 191 x 140 (138 x 98) mm.  Two columns, 31
lines.  Single vertical bounding lines, with three lines between columns. 
Ruled in lead.

I-IV^^8, V^^8-1+1.

Gothic bookhand.

Capitals and
headings in red.  Diagrams of various bits for horses on ff. 39v and 40r.

Provenance: Laurence Witten acquired the ms. in 1952 from Leo S. Olshki
of Florence and sold it in 1954.  Witten reacquired the ms. and sold it to
Yale in 1988.

secundo folio: si mena

Albert Derolez