Title assigned by cataloger.

Layout: single columns of 31 lines.

Script: gothic rotunda.

Decoration: rubrication.

Binding: limp vellum, with leather ties. Spine title: Mulo Medicina I.A.M.S.

Secundo folio: regimi(n)e (et) infirmatib(us)

Colophon: Meum nomen non pono quia me laudare non volo.

Bibliographic file available.

In Latin.

Manuscript on parchment of Theodoric of Borgognoni's Mulomedicina, a compilation of Greek and Latin authorities on horses and horse care. Comprised of three parts, the text first discusses general hippology, that is, the raising, training and aesthetic characteristics of horses; the second part and first chapters of the third deal with the treatment of various pathologies, with a particular focus on the eyes; the final sections of the third part deal with the bad behaviour of horses.

Part 1, fols.1r-13v; part 2, fols.14r-30r; part 3, fols. 30r-37v; index, fol. 38r-v. Fols. 39-40 blank, with later annotations on fol. 39v.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.

Horses > Early works to 1800.

Veterinary medicine > Early works to 1800.

Annotations - 15th century.

Armorial bookplates.

Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 13th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 14th century.