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    Open book showing on left a disease horse chart with lines leading from different parts of the horse’s body to numbers indexed on the facing text page
    Woodcut chart showing nude male figure facing front surrounded by disease labels linked to body parts.
    Woodcut chart showing a male figure facing front with the twelve symbols of the zodiac linked over the body parts and labeled with effects.
    Woodcut chart showing a horse in the middle of the page with the twelve symbols of the zodiac linked to parts of the horse’s body.
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    Woodcut illustration showing a horse facing left with lines indicating different parts of the horse body affected by the different zodiac constellations

    Opera di Mescalzia by Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacozzo, 1591

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    Title page in Italian with large woodcut printer’s device and red inked cardinal’s device imprinted over it.
    Opera di Mescalzia by Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacozzo, 1591
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    Woodcut illustration set in the text showing a horse with cuts releasing blood from its face, neck and hip.
    “Bloodletting chart” from Opera di Mescalzia by Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacozzo, 1591
    Woodcut illustration set in the text showing a horse facing left with a parasitic worm infection on its hind quarters.
    “Farcy, or Cutaneous Glanders” from Opera di Mescalzia by Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacozzo, 1591
    Woodcut illustration set in the text showing a horse facing right with cuts releasing blood from its neck, front legs, and belly.
    Opera di Mescalzia by Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacozzo, 1591
    Woodcut illustration set in the text showing a horse facing right inhaling a medicated vapor from an urn.
    Opera di Mescalzia by Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacozzo, 1591
    Woodcut bloodletting illustration showing a horse facing right with cuts releasing blood from its face and front legs, all surrounded by text.
    “Bloodletting” from Opera di Mescalzia by Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacozzo, 1591
    Woodcut horse illustration showing one horse at the top of the page facing left with an infection on the back of its hind quarters and a horse in the lower portion of the page with a skin disease.
    “Skin Infections” from Opera di Mescalzia by Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacozzo, 1591
    Woodcut illustration of a horse skeleton facing right with text above in Italian
    Opera di Mescalzia by Filippo Scaccho da Tagliacozzo, 1591