4 AN INDEX TO WORKS 



1462. Thefolloioing are the printed ed!ti07is : — Liber Marescalcice, 4to. 



Rome, 1490. Another edition, 4to. printed at Speyer, about the 

 same date. Another, Hippiatria, sive Marescalia Laur. Kusii. 

 . . in qua praeter variorum morborum plurima, ac saluber- 

 rima remedia, quadraginta tres commodissimse fraenorum formse 

 excusse sunt, ut nullara tarn novo oris vitio laborantem equum 

 invenias, cui non hinc occurrere possis. folio. Paris, 1531. 

 Another edition, of the same by the same printer, hut differing from 

 the above, 4to. Paris, 1532; 8vo. Padua, 1818. 



Italian editions: — Arte de cognoscere la natura de' cauael, &c. 

 . . in vulgare, per Fratre Gabriele Bruno. 4to. Venice, 1492 ; 8vo. 

 Venice, 1554; 4to. Bologna, 1561; 8vo. Venice, 1563; 12mo. 

 Venice, 1559. 



French editions : — La Mareschalerie de Laurens Ruse, translates 

 de Latin en fran9oys, avec les figures des Mors, folio. Paris, 1533. 

 Another by the same p)rinter but different edition and title, folio. 

 Paris, 1541. Other edit io7is -.—ito. Paris, 1558; 1563; 4to. 

 Paris, 1583; 4to. Paris, 1610. 



1472. Rei Rusticce Scriptores, (scilicet : Marcus Porcius Cato, Marcus 

 Terentius Varro, et Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, ex 

 recens Georgii Alexandrini, Palladius Rutilius Taurus 

 ^milianus, studio Franc. Coluciae verzinenses). folio. Venice, 1472. 



Also 1482; Bo]ogna,1494; Ibid., 1496; Ibid., 1499; 4to, Venice, 

 1514; Florence, 1515; 1521 ; Venice, 1533 ; 8vo. Lyons, 1541 ; 

 1548-9; Paris, 1543; 4to. Leipsic, 1735; 2 vols, 4to. Leipsic, 

 1773-4 ; 5 vols, 8vo. Mannheim, 1781 ; 4 vols, 8vo. Deux Ponts, 

 1787; 5 vols, Venice, 1783-5; 7 vols, 8vo. Leipsic, 1794-1797 : 

 Ibid., 2 vols, 4to. 1827. 



In French : — Traduction d'anciens ouvrages latins relatifs a 

 I'agriculture e^ a la medecine veterinaire avec des notes par 

 Saboureux de La Bonnetrie, 6 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1771-75. 



In Schneider's edition, 1794-, there is a full account of the 

 various MSS. 



1478. A Persian MS. in the British Museum entitled Kurrat ul-Mulk. 



Date A.H. 833. [a.d. 1478]. 



The loork is divided into 12 chapters, subdivided into sections 

 and numbered at the beginning as follows : I. — Breeds of 

 various countries. 2. — Modes of choosing Horses. 3. — Omens 

 derived from the movement of Horses. 4- — Colours of Horses. 

 5. — Their blemishes. 6. — Their limbs. 7. — Diseases and reme- 

 dies. 8. — Bleeding. 9. — Diet and food. 10. — Fattening, and 

 treatment of sores. 11. — Hoiv to knoio the age of Horses by their 



Teeth ; and, 12. — On lucky and unlucky marks in Horses. 



