Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Extratto da un libro de razza da cavalli del re Ferrante vechio de Aragona.

Authors

• Ferdinand I, King of Naples, 1423-1494

Other related names

• Croy, Philippe de, 1496-1549, former owner
• Morel de Vindé, Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte, 1759-1842, former owner
• Huzard, J.-B. 1755-1838, former owner
• Curnieu, Charles Louis Adélaïde Henri Matheron, baron de, ca. 1811-1871, former owner

Call number

LJS 29
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950270113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122348622
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5027011

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1541

Place

Venice

Summary

Treatise in 84 chapters on the anatomy, medical treatment, physical appearance, breeding, training, and care of horses. The manuscript claims to be an abridgment of an otherwise unknown work by Ferdinand I of Naples, an avid horseman.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

47 leaves : 228 x 157 (157 x 109) mm. bound to 233 x 166 mm

Collation

Parchment, i + 47 + i; 1-5⁸ 6⁸(-1); gatherings numbered 1-6 in modern pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Original Venetian morocco over pasteboard, blind- and gilt-tooled.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink.

Decoration

Pen flourishes on either side of title (f. 1r) and some chapter headings; calligraphic initials in left margins at beginning of chapters.

Script

Written in a cancellaresca script.

Provenance

• Possibly first owned by Philippe de Croy, duc d'Arschot, marquis de Renty (after 1533), chevalier de la Toison d'Or, and royal chamberlain (inscriptions and pen trials inside lower cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Charles Gilbert Terray, vicomte de Morel de Vindé (presentation letter from him to an unidentified woman, 1826, pasted inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by J.-B. Huzard, preeminent 18th- and 19th-century collector of texts on horses (stamp, f. 1r).
   
• Sold as part of the Huzard collection, 1843, to Charles Louis Adélaïde Henri Matheron, baron de Curnieu (armorial booklabel inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction by Etude Couturier Nicolay at Hôtel Drouot as part of the baron de Curnieu collection, 25 Feb. 1986, lot 144.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1994, lot 85, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Agriculture--Early works to 1800
• Animal culture--Early works to 1800
• Horsemanship--Early works to 1800
• Horses--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Treatise
• Animal culture

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Gift letter, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Pen flourishes, f. 1r
• fol. 13v — Pen flourish, f. 13v
• fol. 15r — Pen flourishes, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Pen flourish, f. 15v
• fol. 16v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 16v
• fol. 17v — Pen flourishes, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Pen flourishes, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Pen flourish, f. 18v
• fol. 21r — Pen flourish, f. 21r
• fol. 23r — Pen flourish, f. 23r
• fol. 24r — Pen flourishes, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Pen flourish, f. 24v
• fol. 29v — Pen flourish, f. 29v
• fol. 46v — Pen flourishes, f. 46v