Manuscripta

This article represents the first formal catalogue of the Latin manuscripts in the collection of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library at Ohio State University. The collection comprises manuscripts dating from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries; the catalogue analyses and describes their physical properties, as well as their authors and texts.

A previously unknown fifteenth-century book of hours has been discovered in the Cushwa-Leighton Library of Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN). The following study provides an analytical description of the manuscript, analyses of codicological, paleographical, and liturgical features, decoration, and provenance. The results show the manuscript originated in a center of organised production in the Amiénois in the second half of the fifteenth century and spent over a century in the possession of Picard nobility in the Seigneurie du Fay-lès-Hornoy.

This article examines the development of veterinary medicine in medieval Spain and the manuals produced for the care of highly valued horses and mules, focusing on a veterinary treatise written by Manuel Díez. The author describes the images of horses that illustrate copies of this text, in particular the astrological horse, whose various body parts and their health were ruled by celestial bodies and the signs of the zodiac.