Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum

The text in the edition Jordani Ruffi Calabriensis, Hippiatria , ed. Hieronymo Molin (Seminarii Patavini, 1818) [available on Google Books], is numbered as follows:

• [Prologue]
• I-II
• III [1]-4
• IV-V
• VI [prologue and chapter list]
• [VI] 1-57
• Regulae cognitionum omnium equorum

Leaves with continuous text are grouped together. Note that the chapter numbers in the manuscript (here given in lower-case Roman numerals) differ from the 1818 edition by Molin (here in upper-case Roman and Arabic numerals).

The gaps in the text, and a few still-conjoint bifolia, suggest that the structure was:

• Quire I: the outermost bifolium was missing
• Quire II: the 4th and 7th leaves (a bifolium) and the last leaf, were missing
• Quire III: the 3rd and 8th leaves (a bifolium) and the outermost bifolium were missing.
• One or more leaves or quires may have followed, but not necessarily

Key to abbreviations below

• OSU = Ohio State University [images on Facebook here]
• PJP = Phillip J. Pirages, Catalogue 65 [2013]
• Sotheby's = 2011 description and a few images [here]
• Stanford, CA = Accession nos. 2013-040 and 2013-075 [images here]
• UVA = University of Virginia [group photo here]
• VFL = Vatican Film Library, University of St Louis [images on Digital Scriptorium]

Physical and textual reconstruction:

1^10-2 (1st and 10th leaves [a bifolium], missing)

• [Leaf missing]
• II-III.1. Molin pp. 5-8 
• "taliter quod propter ... quod aque"
• PJP no. 64 [EDIT, 9/6/20:] Private collection, Luxembourg
• III.1-3. Molin pp. 8-12 
• "quanto frigidiores ... in manibus"
• UVA MSS 1570 leaf 6.
• III.3-4. Molin pp. 12-16
• "circa dorsum ... assuete affre||".
• PJP no. 66; OSU
• III.4-[V]. Molin pp. 16-[21]
• recto: "||nationis maximam ... [rubric to V]". 
• Private collection, UK. A bifolium with the next leaf, the recto (only) on Sotheby's website.
• VI-VI.1. Molin pp. 21[-25]. Chapter-list 
• "Capitula vocabulorum ... ". 
• See previous leaf
• VI.1-4. ii-iiii. Molin, pp. 25-30. 
• "[glan]dule tali modo ... melius videbitur expedire".
• Stanford, CA.
• VI.4-10. v-x. Molin pp. 30-37. 
• "ponendo etiam ... accidit cum"
• PJP no. 59; UVA MSS 1570 leaf 1. (Recto here; verso here).
• VI.10-12. xi-[xii?]. Molin pp. 37-42. 
• "equus comedit ... ipso quia nichil"
• PJP no. 60; UVA MSS 1570 leaf 2. (Recto on Sotheby's website).
• [Leaf missing]

2^10-3 (4th & 7th [a bifolium] and 10th leaf missing)

• VI.15-18. xvi-xviij. Molin pp. 48-53 
• "videbitur in equitando ... antiquitus"
• PJP no. 61; UVA MSS 1570 leaf 4.
• VI.18-22. xviiij-xxij. Molin pp. 53-58 
• "Accipitur ossa sepie ... importuni. Que"
• VFL MS 061a
• VI.22-27 xxiij-xxvij. Molin pp. 58-63 
• "lesio cornu .... donec abilissime"
• PJP no. 62; UVA MSS 1570 leaf 3.
• [Leaf missing]
• VI.32-36. xxxiij-xxxv. Molin pp. 69-74 
• "De lesionibus tergi ... spinelle dicuntur"
• Private collection, CA.
• VI.36-37. xxxvi-xxxviij. Molin pp. 74-78
• "Cura. Quibus tales ... De Gallis. Rubrica."
• Stanford, CA
• [Leaf missing]
• VI.42-45. xlij-[xlv]. Molin pp. 83-88
• "Accidit quandoque ... patienti multo"
• PJP no. 63; UVA MSS 1570 leaf 5
• VI.45-48. xlvi-xlviij. Molin pp. 88-92
• "magis aliis ... a sordidibus desic[atis]"
• VFL MS 061
• [Leaf missing]

3^10-4 (1st, 3rd, 8th and 10th leaves [two bifolia], missing)

• [Leaf missing]
• VI.55-56. lvi-lix. Molin pp. 101-105
•  "[cor]rodatur et corroso ... exterius inquirentes"
• VFL MS 061c
• [Leaf missing]
• VI. 56-Regulae. lxiii-lxv. Molin pp. 109-115
• "modo aliquo artificialiter ... solummodo nec aliquid curvans"
• VFL MS 061d
• Regulae. Molin pp. 115-116 line 18. Followed by recipes.
• "iuncturas sed erigit ... difficile adiuvatur(?)"; recipies with rubrics from "Contra mugas et rappas" to "Contra rappas franciscas"
• VFL MS 061e
• Excerpts from Vegetius
•  "Notabilia Vegetii de re militari. Nulla enim alia re videmus ... meditatio facilium reddat."
• VFL MS 061f
• Excerpts from Vegetius
• "Secundi libri Vegetii ... Desperantibus autem"
• VFL MS 061g
• [Leaf missing]
• Excerpts from Seneca, De ira, etc.
• "morbum suum noxe [sic] et vires eius ... Excepta libri Anna Senece ad Galionem de vita beata ... De clementia ad Neronem liber primus ..."
• MS 061h
• [Leaf missing]