Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . EUSTATHIUS. 39,3 spicuous, is now also copied from a French manuscriptof the Apocalypse, written in the 13th century. Theprominence given to the armature on the horses hoofsshows how important it was deemed (fig. 147). Another. fig-147 delineation will be found in a rare pamphlet printed in1485, entitled Jacobi publici Florentini. Oratoris Insti-tution In nearly all the manuscripts of this period, in whichhorses figure, their hoofs are represented as shod. Wewill give some additional examples of these presently. Writers
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . EUSTATHIUS. 39,3 spicuous, is now also copied from a French manuscriptof the Apocalypse, written in the 13th century. Theprominence given to the armature on the horses hoofsshows how important it was deemed (fig. 147). Another. fig-147 delineation will be found in a rare pamphlet printed in1485, entitled Jacobi publici Florentini. Oratoris Insti-tution In nearly all the manuscripts of this period, in whichhorses figure, their hoofs are represented as shod. Wewill give some additional examples of these presently. Writers more frequently mention shoeing. Eusta-thius, who wrote a commentary on Homer, in the 12thcentury, is the first to mention the Greek horses of an-tiquity as shod, a statement we conclude to be erroneous,but which shows that Eustathius was well acquainted withthe art. With the revival of learning, what may be de-signated veterinary medicine was again attracting altcn- 394 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. tion, and the writers who previously treated of this branchof science, and were altogether silent regarding shoeing,now speak of it and its requirements. Foremost among these was the Calabrian, JordanusRufFus, Master of the Horse {Comes Maiestalli) to thegreat Frederick, who lived in the 13th ce
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