Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

[Livro de la Menscalcia de li cavalli]
Italy, perhaps in Apulia, early 15th century
MS M.735 fol. 70r

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1) Bridled horse with bent neck.
2) Hybrid man holds flail and bridle of horse standing beside hitching post. Man holds pincers in left hand and cuts into horse with curved knife in right hand.
Unframed colored drawings illustrating chapters 18 and 19 (respectively).