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Title

Penn Library's LJS 484 - L'arte de la medicina de le bestie. (Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

Files

Date of this Version

3-15-2023

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 484, a 15th-century copy of the first Italian vernacular translation of a 5th-century Latin treatise on veterinary medicine, focusing on horses, mules, donkeys, and cattle. 16th-century notes added at the end (f. 91v-92v) include medicinal recipes for a woman in pain and a donkey or ass with a fever.

Written in Italy, possibly Ferrara, between 1450 and 1475

Record on Franklin, with link to a digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9956203673503681

Record on Internet Archive, with a link to PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs484

Link to eBook

http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/31

Link to OPENN

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs484.html

Keywords

Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800, Horses -- Diseases, Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800, Veterinary medicine, Medicine -- Formulae receipts prescriptions -- Early works to 1800, Medicine -- Formulae receipts prescriptions, Codices (bound manuscripts), Treatises, Manuscripts Italian -- 15th century, Manuscripts Renaissance

Disciplines

Renaissance Studies | Veterinary Medicine

Streaming Media

Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2023, March 15). Penn Library's LJS 484 - L'arte de la medicina de le bestie. (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/219