De, L'espinay

La grande mareschalerie du Sieur de Lespinay gentilhomme périgordin. After the end of the text on p.225, and after the Index are some receipts for the maladies of horses of another contemporary hand.

Mid 17th Century

1 volume 3 ll. (first 2 bl.). + 225 pp. + 22 ll. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 26 x 18 1/2cm. Original calf binding. Text within red rules: written in a very near italic hand.

Purchased 1930.

The work was first printed in Paris in 1642, but it seems to have circulated in MS. before then. Wellcome MS. No. 415 is another copy, provisionally dated c. 1630.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

On the verso of the t.p. is the lithographed signature of 'Huzard de l'Institut' and it seems to be No. 3566 in P. Leblanc's 'Catalogue des livres... de la Bibliothèque de feu M.J.B. Huzard', Vol. III. 1842, p.327.