Veterinarian Treatises
This literary tradition starts with the work of Jordanus Rufus de Calabria, whose work was copied and translated on multiple occasions. Although this tradition is mostly concerned with equine medicine, it also contains a short though valuable section on the education of young horses.
Rufus de Calabria, Jordanus
biography: WOC
De medicina equorum (1250-1256)
Manuscripts:
Note: The work of Jordanus Rufus de Calabria was immensely successful in the course of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. His work is preserved in nothing less than 173 manuscripts and translated in eight different languages. Rendering a complete list of all these manuscripts will make this page intransparent and supersedes the goals of the Bibliotheca, which tries to focus on works which are digitally available. Therefore, this list will render some representative manuscript for each language and manuscripts which are digitally accessible. For a complete list, I refer to Montinaro, A., La tradizione del “De medicina equorum” con un censimento dei testimoni manoscritti a stampa (2015, Milano), pp. 68-227
- Latin (Only 13th century or digital manuscripts)
- Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Med. Palat. 60, 1r-23r (13th century)
- De curatione equorum
Liber marescalcie
London British Library, Harley 3772, 1r-14v, 59v-70v (13th century) - Liber curarum infirmitarum ecorum
London, Welcome Library, 7756, 1r-22v (13th century) - München, Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 23646, 1r-72r (13th century)
description: catalogue - Münster, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Hs 973, 1r-29v (13th/14th century)
- Practica equorum
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1427, ff. 1r-26v (13th/14th century) - De medicina equorum o Hippiatria
Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Lat. Cl. VII 24, ff. 55r-69v (13th century) - Mariscalcia equorum
Paris, Bibliothèque National de Paris, Latin 2477, 104r-125v (13th century)
description: catalogue - Paris, Bibliothèque National de Paris, Latin 6584(2), 48r-66v (13th century)
description: catalogue - Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, D III 34 (15th Century)
description: catalogue
- Italian (Only 13th century or digital manuscripts)
- Lo libro de le mariscalcie dei cavalli
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, 78 C 15, 1r-48v (13th century) - New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke MS 679 (ca. 1350)
description: catalogue - Paris, Bibliothèque National de France, Italien 454 (15th century)
description: catalogue
- Lo libro de le mariscalcie dei cavalli
- French (Only 13th century or digital manuscripts)
- La marechaucie des chevax
Paris, Bibliothèque National de Paris, Français 2534, 1r-30v (13th century)
description: catalogue
- La marechaucie des chevax
- Occitan
- Lo libre de la marescalcia des cavals
Fréjus, Bibliothèque Municipale, 9, 1r-71r (second half 15th century)
- Lo libre de la marescalcia des cavals
- Catalan
- Paris, Bibliothèque National de Paris, Espagnol, 212, ff. 93v-109v (second half 14th century)
Description : catalogue
- Paris, Bibliothèque National de Paris, Espagnol, 212, ff. 93v-109v (second half 14th century)
- Gallician
- Tratado de Alveitaria.
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 23076, 2r-27v (1420)
- Tratado de Alveitaria.
- Hebrew
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Or. 93, 34v-80r (first half 15th century)
- German
- Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ., 540, ff. 1r-7v (ca. 1400)
description: catalogue - Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ., 297, 1r-95r (ca. 1470)
description: catalogue - Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ., 406 (1475)
description: catalogue - Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ., 169, 180r-215v (15th century)
description: catalogue - Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ., 408, ff. 83r-144v (15th/16th century)
description: catalogue
- Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ., 255, 1r-6r (1510/1543)
description: catalogue
- Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ., 540, ff. 1r-7v (ca. 1400)
- Latin-French
- Liber mareschalchie equorum
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAL 1553, 1r-31v (ca. 1320)
description : catalogue
- Liber mareschalchie equorum
- Latin-Italian
- Medicina equorum
Rimedi de’ cavalli
Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale «Vittorio Emanuele III», VIII D 67 bis, 1r-24r, 25r-54v (15th century/1522)
- Medicina equorum
Modern Editions:
- Hieronymo Molin, Jordani Ruffi Calabriensis Hippiatria (1818, Patavini)
link: 1818
Translations:
- Italian
- Gabriele Bruno (trans.), Arte de cognoscere la natura de cavael (1493)
- “Libro del muodo de governar cavalli” in : Libro de la natura di cavalli (1502)
1524 - Libro dell'arte de marascalchiper conoscere la natura de li cavalli, & medicarli nelle loro infirmitate, & l'arte di domarli (1554, Venetia)
link: 1554; 1554 - Il dottissimo libro non più stampato delle malscalzie del Cavallo (1561)
1561
Modern Translations :
- Italian
- Hedvall, Y.O. (trans.), Lo libro dele marescalcie dei cavalli. Cod. 78 C 15 (1995, Stockholm)
- French
- Prévot, B. (trans.), La science du cheval au Moyen Age. Le Traité d’hippiatrie de Jordanus Rufus (Paris, 1991)
- Hunt, T. (trans.), Old French Medical Texts, («Textes littéraires du Moyen Âge», 18) (2011)
- Spanish
- Pérez, G. (trans.), A tradución galega do «Liber de medicina equorum» de Giordano Ruffo (2013, Coruña)
Rusio, Lorenzo
Biography: WikIt
Liber marescalcie equorum (1320)
Manuscripts:
- Latin
- Hippiatria sive Marescalia
Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cod. S.XXVI.2 (1434)
Information: TextManuscripts - De Signis Bonitatis Et Malitie Equorum Et De Ipsorum Infirmatibus Causis Et Curis
Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio, A1586 (1450)
Description : Schoenberg - Marescalcia equorum
New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke, MS 136 (15th century)
description: catalogue
- Hippiatria sive Marescalia
- Italian
- liber mariscalcie equorum
New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke, MS 679 (ca. 1350)
Description: catalogue - Libro della maschalcia de chevagli
New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke, MS 917 (ca. 1400)
Description: catalogue - Antonio Dapera, Hippiatria sive Marescalia (1434)
Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cod. S.XXVI.2
Information: TextManuscripts - Di curare le malattie de cavalli (15th century)
New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke, MS 459
Description: catalogue - Di curare le malattie de cavalli (15th century)
New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke, MS 488
Description: catalogue - Libro de mascalcia
Paris, BNF, Italien, 938
description : catalogue
- liber mariscalcie equorum
Editions:
- Liber marescalciae equorum (before 1489, Speyer)
link: 1489 - Hippiatria sive marescalia (1531)
1531; 1531; 1531; 1532 - Luigi Barbieri, La Mascalcia di Lorenzo Rusio, volgarizzamente del secolo XIV messo per la prima volta in luce par Pietro Delprato; aggiuntovi il testo latino per cura de Luigi Barbieri (1867)
link: I 1867;II 1867
Translations:
- Italian
- French
Alberti, Leon Battista
De equo animante (1468)
Manuscripts:
- Roma, Biblioteca Vaticana, Ott. Lat. 70, ff. 122r-135v (1468)
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Misc. 172, 20v-28v (1487)
Editions:
- Michele Martino Stella (ed.), Leonis Baptistae Alberti, De equo animante … libellus (1556, Basilea)
Modern editions:
- Mancini H. (ed.), Leonis Baptistae Alberti, opera inedita et pauca separatim impressa (1890, Florentia)
link: 1890 - Videtta A. (ed. & trans.), Leon Battista Alberti, De equo animante (il cavallo vivo) (1991, Neapoli)
link: 1991
Dies, Manuel
Biography: WikiEs; Temes
Libre de la menescaha (1424-1436)
Manuscripts :
- Catalan
- Libre de la menescaha
Valencia, Biblioteca Universitaria, ms. 631 (mid 15th century - Sevilla, Biblioteca Colombina, ms. 5-4-46
description: catalogue; Colombina
- Libre de la menescaha
- Castillian
- Libro llamado de albeytaría
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, I-674 (1495)
- Libro llamado de albeytaría
- French
- Paris, Bibliothèque National de France, Français, 2002 (15th century)
description: catalogue
- Paris, Bibliothèque National de France, Français, 2002 (15th century)
Liber de manescalcia (1515, Barcelona)
Link: 1523
Modern editions:
Ferragud, I.C. (ed.), "El «Libre de la menescalia» de Manuel Dies: de espejo de caballeros a manual de albéitares", Asclepio, 51 (1999), 93-127 [Fragment]
Link: 1999
Translations:
- Castilian
- Libro de albeyteria ( 1500, Valladolid)
link: 1500; 1500 - Libro de albeytería (1499, Saragossa)
link: 1499;1506; 1518-1524;1518-1524 - Libro de albeyteria ( 1500, Toledo)
link: 1507; 1507 - Libro de albeyteria ( 1500, Sevilla)
link: 1534; 1534 - "Tractat de les mules i alguns capítols del Llibre dels cavalls" in : Recopilación de los más famosos autores griegos y latinos… (1564), ff. 19v-31r
link: 1564; 1564
- Libro de albeyteria ( 1500, Valladolid)
Münsinger, Heinrich
Buch von den Falken, Sperbern, Pferden und Hunden (1475)
Manuscript:
- Buch von den Falken, Sperbern, Pferden und Hunden
Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. Germ. 406 (1475)
Applied Horsemanship
Duarte, king of Portugal
Biography: WikiEn
Livro da Ensinança de Bem Cavalgar Toda Sela (1438)
Manuscripts :
Modern editions:
Modern translations:
Preto A. F. (trans.), The Art of Riding on Every Saddle: Livro Da Ensinanca De Bem Cavalgar Toda Sela (2011)
description: GoogleBooks
Biography: WikiEn
Livro da Ensinança de Bem Cavalgar Toda Sela (1438)
Manuscripts :
- Portugese:
- Paris, BNF, Portugais, 5 (1438)
description : catalogue; WikiEn
- Paris, BNF, Portugais, 5 (1438)
Modern editions:
- Leal conselheiro e Livro da ensinança de bem cavalgar toda sela, escrito pelo Senhor Dom Duarte, Rei de Portugal e do Algarve e Segnhor de Ceuta, trascrito do manuscrito extante na Biblioteca Real de Paris (1843, Lisboa)
link: 1843 - Piel Joseph M. (ed.), Livro Da Ensinança De Bem Cavalgar Toda Sela que fez Elrey Dom Eduarte de Portugal e do Algarve e Senhor de Ceuta (1944, Lisboa)
Modern translations:
Preto A. F. (trans.), The Art of Riding on Every Saddle: Livro Da Ensinanca De Bem Cavalgar Toda Sela (2011)
description: GoogleBooks