ID 1449855
Lot 23 | Giovanni Facio Patarino dell'Amendolara (fl.1450)
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 25 000
Trattato di mascalcia, in Italian, manuscript on paper [southern Italy, probably Naples, final quarter 15th century]
An unrecorded copy of a rare 15th-century treatise on hippiatric medicine, in a contemporary Neapolitan binding.
212 x 140 mm, i + 103 leaves + ii leaves, apparently complete, collation: 15(of 6, vi a cancelled blank), 2-710, 814, 9-1010, 114, gathering signatures survive, 17-19 lines, written space: 140 x 95mm, initials, rubrics and running headers in red, a loose leaf and a half leaf at the end (some marginal spotting and dampstaining, a few edges torn, eg. ff.65-66, a few gatherings a little loose). Contemporary Neapolitan brown morocco tooled in blind over thin pasteboards (a little stained and warped).
Provenance:
(1) In 1474 Facio Patarino dedicated a copy of the text to Ferdinand of Aragon. The present copy is addressed to Bernardino de Sancto Severino, Conte de Laoria: this is surely Barnaba Sanseverino, Count of Lauria and nobleman of the Kingdom of Naples. The watermark with a mermaid within a circle is close to Piccard-Online 21199 and 21209, localisable to Rome in the final decade of the 15th century.
(2) Giovanni Gandolfi: his ownership inscription and ink ex-libris dated 1785 on front flyleaf.
Content: Index ff.1-5; Trattato di mascalcia: 'Receptario de mescaltia composto da Mas[t]ro Fatio Patarino de la Mendolara ad Bernardino de Sancto Severino Conte de Laoria et Segnore de la Mendolara', chapters I-CX, beginning 'Primo voi notare se la luna volta con li pezzi verso levante', ff.6-94; 'Receptario extracto de alchuni rimedi experimentati et singularissimi dal quinternio del segnor Re', ff.94-10v; notes and recipes added in a slightly later hand ff.100v-103v. The loose leaf contains three separate chapters, including one on how to get a horse to go to sleep.
Little is known of the enigmatic Mastro Facio Patarino dell'Amendolara, or Amegdolara, or Ainendolara (not to be confused with another hippiatric enthusiast of the 13th century, Bonifacio Patarino, author of different treatise on horse medicine) other than that he was a 15th-century veterinarian from southern Italy, likely a native of Calabria and that he dedicated his treatise to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1474 (for the most recent bibliography on the author, see M. Colotti, 'Mastro Facio Patarino della Amendolara ed il suo Trattato di mascalcia', Arte tecnica e cultura popolare all’alba del Cinquecento : Mastro Facio Patarino della Amendolara ed il suo “Trattato di mascalcia” nei codici quattrocenteschi meridionali, 2003). The manuscript begins with an astrological slant 'De cognoscere la ragione de la luna' and contains an in-depth catalogue of various equine ailments, swellings, wounds, fevers, diseases and conditions with practical remedies to cure them. It is extremely rare on the market, and only a handful of contemporary copies are known in institutions, including four at the BnF (italien 938, 939, 940 and 941).
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Manuscrits médiévaux et de la Renaissance, Livres et manuscrits |
| Lieu d'origine: | Italie, Europe |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Manuscrits médiévaux et de la Renaissance, Livres et manuscrits |
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