Modo di dare la purga ai cavalli : Tratato de bovini [manuscript].
Michael Laird, bookseller, description: Highly curious veterinary manuscript, no doubt unpublished, signed and dated by the compiler. The front pastedown is inscribed: "Questo libro e di me Pasquale Padoani de Camposanto 1775 a di 27 Ag[os]to", with motto "non tangunt, et amant"....
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| Language: | Italian |
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| Summary: | Michael Laird, bookseller, description: Highly curious veterinary manuscript, no doubt unpublished, signed and dated by the compiler. The front pastedown is inscribed: "Questo libro e di me Pasquale Padoani de Camposanto 1775 a di 27 Ag[os]to", with motto "non tangunt, et amant". Not only is there a book-curse at the end of the volume, but in the front there are eleven small pieces of paper, dating certainly into the nineteenth century, which include accounting sums and shits for purchase of veterinary drugs. These loose notes suggest a continued use of the manuscript for more than a century. The manuscript contains a detailed veterinary guide to treating horses, followed by another (shorter) on cows. Both works include medical receipts; interestingly the first work gives a short guide account on the administration of narcotics. The volume belonged to a later eighteenth century owner from Camposanto, a small town near Modena. This person provided index and notes at the end and may also have written out the works themselves. A peculiar Latin curse at end, in his hand, translates: "May he who snatches this book break his head, and after his head is broken may the black tartar get him". |
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| Item Description: | Manuscript on paper, writing to 230 pages. Bound in contemporary stiffened vellum wallet binding; wrapping cord removed, worming, large inkstain to back cover (which becomes front when opened). Watermarks: in the last gathering fleur-de-lis (top part only) in bottom gutter of leaves 11 and 14, and lower part of fleur-de-lis in bottom gutter of leaves 10 and 15 with initials "RMP" and on leaf 10, additional initials "S" and "C" under "RMP". The top and bottom parts on leaves 14 and 15 are more refined. |
| Physical Description: | 128 leaves : illustrations ; 125 x 95 mm |