Manuscripts

"Comenzarino" [Italian treatise on care and treatment of horses]

Description: Bologna. Blind stamp binding. A. B. Maclay copy. 18 cm. Gift of Courtland E. Palmer.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1523
Call number: HM 68495
Creator: Lasker, Edward (1912-1997)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Cynthia Lasker, 1998-2005.; Gift of Courtland E. Palmer, November 2010.
Associated people: Clinton, DeWitt, (1769-1828.); George (1762-1830,); Gould, Nat. (1847-1929.); Lasker, Cynthia, (1808-1884.); Palmer, Courtland E., (1788-1851.); Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, (1856-1933.); Scott, Robert W.; Skinner, John S.; Taunton, T. H.; Wavertree, William Hall Walker,
Associated organizations: Blood-Horse, Inc.; Fasig-Tipton Co.; J.A. Allen & Co.; James Cummins Bookseller.
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