La «Mascalcia» di Giordano Ruffo nei più antichi manoscritti in volgare italiano conservati in Emilia Romagna

Abstract

Following the memoir of the Proceedings of the second international conference on ancient and medieval veterinary medicine (Catania, 3-5 October, 2007), an additional proceed of the research is proposed. The analysis is extended to the most ancient manuscripts of the blacksmith Giordano Ruffo, kept in the libraries of Emilia Romagna. The libraries considered are: Bologna (Archiginnasio Library, 11 mss.; Universitary Library, 1 ms.), Modena (Estense Library, 3 mss.), Parma (Palatina Library, 1 ms.) and Ravenna (Classense Library, 1 ms.). The study of the 17 manuscripts - those in particular dated about the half of the 14th century - is a codicological and palaeographical analysis, which includes also philological observations. The aim is to define what were the practices in use by the copyists (i.e. to examine their choices in the material preparation of the manuscripts), as well as the transmission of the text by Giordano Ruffo in Emilia Romagna.

Keywords

• Giordano Ruffo
• Mascalcia
• manuscript tradition
• Emilia Romagna (Italy)
• codicology
• palaeography