Mediciues for horses, [approximately 1565?]
- Title(s):
- Mediciues for horses.
- Additional Title(s):
- Medicines for horses.
- Published/Created:
- [London] : [William Copland], [approximately 1565?]
- Physical Description:
- [28] pages : illustration ; 19 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsSF743 .M44 1565Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3264754
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Second English book on the horse. See: Podeschi.
Entered in Stationers' Register to J. Rowbotham, 1564-65. See: STC.
Date and publisher from STC.
Podeschi cites date as ca. 1530.
With a large woodcut illustration on the title page.
Signatures: A-C⁴ D² (C1 signed D1).
Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 6
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 20439.7
English short title catalogue, S94802
Luborsky, R.S. Guide to English illustrated books, 1536-1603, 20439.7
BAC: British Art Center copy imperfect: leaves D1 and D2 supplied in facsimile. Bound in modern brown morocco, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London.
"The paragraphs in the text are numbered i-lxviii. The first twenty of these paragraphs have to do with the characteristics of a good horse and with the training of horses; the rest of the work is devoted to equine medicine."--Podeschi.
A portion of the text is taken directly from Berners' Boke of St. Albans. The properties of a good horse are described with the same fifteen characteristics as taht earlier book, "thre of a manne, thre of a woman, three of an hare, three of a [fox], and three of an asse." - Subject Terms:
- Horses -- Early works to 1800.Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
- Form/Genre:
- Woodcuts.
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