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Title

Traité d'hygienne vétérinaire

Authors

• Godine, jeune

Call number

Ms. Codex 967
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3599708
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3599708

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1799-1800

Place

Maisons-Alfort

Summary

Treatise (possibly lecture notes) on veterinary hygiene, including discussions of topics such as the barometer and thermometer, the temperaments (fold-out table follows p. 40), the seasons, respiration, and digestion. A lesson on sheep and wool (8 pp.), more hurriedly and informally written, is laid in after p. 60. A table of contents appears on p. 294.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author from title page (f. 2r); date, written as "l'an huit de la République francaise," also from title page.
   
• Not described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965). The authors examined the manuscript but dated the work at 1801, outside the catalogue's scope.
   

Extent

154 leaves : 228 x 165 (205 x 143) mm. bound to 240 x 184 mm

Foliation

Paper, 154 leaves; [iv], 1-40, [ii], 41-60, [viii], 61-294, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper left corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards, rebacked (notes of Zacour and Hirsch on file at library).

Layout

Written in long lines with left margins marked in lead.

Provenance

• Note signed "Giraud," "This book is mine" (f. 1r).
   
• Library of the University of Pennsylvania bookplate: "Ellis D. Williams, 1865 College, Library Benefactor's Contribution."
   

Subjects topical

• Veterinary hygiene--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 294 — Table of contents, p. 294

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner signature, Inside front cover
• 236 — Table, p. 236