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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Horses

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Livre pour la remede pour les chevaux [Book of the remedy for horses]

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X032762279]
Identifier: MSS 16817
Content Description This collection contains an anonymous author's unpublished vernacular manuscript on equine health. This manuscript was likely used as a tool by veterinarians or educated farmers in western France in the middle of the eighteenth century. The manuscript is divided into two parts. The first and longer part occupies the first 178 pages and is in a single legible hand. The second part, likely in a different and somewhat later hand, comprises the last eight pages.The first part of the...
Dates: c.1741-1760