Libro de la natura de li caualli : et del modo di riuerlarli: medicarli: & domarli: & cognoscerli : Et q̈li sono boni : et del modo de farli perfetti : et trarli dalli vicij liquali sono viciati : et del modo de ferrarli bene & mantenǐrli in possança: & gagliardi : et de qual sorte morsi a loro se cŏuiéne secődo le nature e vicij o q̈lita di q̈lli : li quali sono tutti historiati in questo : &c. item simelmẽte tratta della natura di releuar: medicar: gouernar: & mantenir sparaueri: astorri: falconi: & simili &c.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: [Ruffo, Giordano], active 1250-1260
Other Authors: Ruffo, Giordano
Format: Book
Language:Italian
Published: Stampato in Venetia : Per Giouãno Tacuino da Trino nel, M.ccccc.xxiiii. adi.x.de Decẽbrio [1524 Dec. 10]
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Description
Item Description:Imprint from colophon.
Credited to Giordano Ruffo (Jordanus Ruffus).
Signatures: A-H⁸, I⁴
First signatures prefaced with "S. Alo" beginning with B¹.
Printed in gothic type, in two columns.
Woodcuts: large title vignette (8 x 8 cm) of a blacksmith's shop showing the legend of St. Alo (i.e. Eligius) and shoeing a reluctant horse (the saint is shown holding the lower part of the leg with the hoof to be shod while a man supports the three-legged horse); another large vignette (8 x 5 cm) at head of chapter on falconry (leaf G¹) of a mews depicting two men caring for falcons with a hound lying between them; beginning with the verso of leaf [G⁷] there are two woodcuts per page for the next [19] pages, with one on the recto of I¹, of two styles of bits per woodcut.
"O a nobilissima cõposta lo excellẽte maistro Agosto mago re d' tutte le passiõ ch' viẽ a falcōi astori e sparaueri": leaf G1 recto - G7 recto.
Physical Description:136 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.