Details

Subjects:

Veterinary hygiene -- Early works to 1800.
Veterinary hygiene.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Lecture notes.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Treatise (possibly lecture notes) on veterinary hygiene, including discussions of topics such as the barometer and thermometer, the temperaments (fold-out table follows p. 40), the seasons, respiration, and digestion. A lesson on sheep and wool (8 pp.), more hurriedly and informally written, is laid in after p. 60. A table of contents appears on p. 294.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and author from title page (f. 2r); date, written as "l'an huit de la République francaise," also from title page.
Pagination: Paper, 154 leaves; [iv], 1-40, [ii], 41-60, [viii], 61-294, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper left corners.
Layout: Written in long lines with left margins marked in lead.
Binding: Contemporary boards, rebacked (notes of Zacour and Hirsch on file at library).
Origin: Written in Maisons-Alfort in Year 8 of the Republic (1799-1800).
Not described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965). The authors examined the manuscript but dated the work at 1801, outside the catalogue's scope.

Penn Provenance:

Note signed "Giraud," "This book is mine" (f. 1r).
Library of the University of Pennsylvania bookplate: "Ellis D. Williams, 1865 College, Library Benefactor's Contribution."

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 967

OCLC:

155925666